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...your Dec. 17 issue states, the New York Coliseum had a fine, spectacular showing of new cars, all presented very attractively. Like several other visitors I spoke with, I found that none of them suited me. The reason is very simple: I cannot fit inside. My head touched the ceiling, and my legs would not fit under the steering wheel with enough room to operate the foot pedals. In some cases I was unable to see a safe distance through the contorted windshields. True enough, my 6 ft. 6 in. height is a contributing factor, but a comparatively short...
Goose Chases. Suddenly police switchboards jammed with calls telling of planted bombs. Detectives by the squad were kept on the run (107 times last week alone) to such public landmarks as Madison Square Garden, Grand Central Terminal, Yankee Stadium, the new Coliseum and the Empire State Building, sometimes came up with a firecracker or an empty piece of pipe, and only once (at the Paramount) with the real goods. Said one weary cop: "This city has plenty of wacks with a screwball sense of humor...
...basketball-batty crowd of 12,400 that stuffed Reynolds Coliseum in Raleigh, N.C. last week, the annual Dixie Classic tournament was another war between the states. Teams from Utah, Iowa, West Virginia and Illinois marched in to play four Southern teams. By the end of the tournament's first round, all four invaders were licked; after the second round Wake Forest and North Carolina were left to fight it out between themselves. At tournament's end North Carolina was the new champion (63-55) of the "tobacco triangle," a sleepy corner of eastern Carolina that habitually produces...
...stage was set for the kind of political show that sobersided Canada seldom allows itself. Ottawa's Coliseum was decked out with flags, bunting and flashing red, green and yellow lights. More than 1,200 Progressive Conservative delegates converged on the capital from all over Canada to nominate a new leader at the party's first national convention since 1948. Even those who could not attend in person could watch from afar; for the first time, TV cameras were on hand to broadcast the proceedings and let all Canadians see the choosing of the man who will...
...industry's most ambitious promotion in history, the big automakers had spread through three floors of the Coliseum an $11,250,000 display of 124 different new cars, 66 trucks and buses, plus scores of sequined nymphs to decorate them, and a half-hour musical review (title: America on the Move) that ran six times a day. Among the show stoppers: the high-priced cars that will go into limited production this year-Cadillac's $12,500 Eldorado Brougham (output restricted to 1,000 the first year), Pontiac's convertible Bonneville Special (only...