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Packard Motor Car Co. took the wraps off its 1954 models and a new Clipper Super series which will give it a complete range of cars from medium-priced ($2,500) to luxurious ($7,200) custom models. Except for rounding off the boxy look of earlier models, most of the...
Mercury's seven other models also got their full share of improvements. Like the new Lincoln, which came out a week ago, Mercury is priced the same and looks much the same as last year's cars on the outside. The big changes are inside. Among them: new...
Beneath the cars' hoods lurked the apparatus of speed-superchargers, twin ignitions, high-compression engine heads, four-barreled carburetors, horsepower piled on horsepower. There were also gestures toward safety. One driver had reconnoitered the whole course, splashed yellow paint on the road to signal the worst curves (unfortunately, other...
A confusing mixture of a 30-year-old artillery building and a bright shiny 1953 addition, Dunbar houses Harvard's experiments in geophysics, particularly the work of Francis Birch, Sturgis Hooper Professor of Geology. Originally Dunbar was used as an artillery shed during the first world war; since then it...
Since Mr. Anderson tries out a new shuffle of scenes at every performance, no-one can predict Almanac's state at the end of a month's run here. It is not difficult to see, however, that compression is the main problem to be solved. The problem is apparent not...