Word: egon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Midget Auto. A three-wheeled, pne-seater auto, 67 in. long, 39 in. high, weighing 132 Ibs., is being manufactured by Egon Briitsak Fahrzeugbau of Stuttgart, Germany. With a plastic body, a 2.5-h.p. engine driving the front (single) wheel, and three speeds, the Briitsch-Mopetta hits a top speed of 24 m.p.h., averages 99 miles per gallon. The car is amphibious, has a paddle wheel attached to the front wheel for use when operating in water. Price...
...Egon Schwartz, a Viennese who lived and studied for ten years in Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador, will join the German department and specialize in the relationship between German and Spanish literature...
Robert L. Politzer, assistant professor of Romance Languages, the phonology of the Italian language; Egon Schwarz, instructor in German, the influence of German literature on the writings of the "generation of 1898" in Spain; Seymour Slive, assistant professor of Fine Arts, studies of the life and works of Frans Hals...
Isetta's slogan, which has helped push production to 100 a day: "Less taxes per year (39 marks) than a city dachshund (60 marks)." Still stranger cars are ready to go on sale. One is the egg-shaped Brütsch, named after Stuttgart Designer Egon Brütsch, which stands barely 3 ft. high, has four forward speeds but no reverse, does 67 miles per gallon. Strangest of all is the Dornier Delta, which looks like an old-fashioned electric toaster on wheels; the front and back sections hinge at the top to form doors. The front seats...
Second row: Egon R. Bodtker of Portland, Ore, and Weld North; E. F. Bowditch, Jr. of Cambridge, Mass. and Wigglesworth; Merom Brachman of Forth Worth, Tex, and Thayer North; David M. Busse of Wilmington, Del. and Straus South; Howard E. Chase of Maplewood, N.J. and Weld South; Richard T. Cooper of Geneva, Ill. and Holworthy Middle; E. Lawrence Currey of Omaha, Neb. and Wigglesworth; Richard W. Daly of Wellesley, Mass. and Matthews South...