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Biggest crowd pleaser in the show was a Jaguar XKE which, powered by a 265-h.p. engine, will do 150 m.p.h. Price: the hardtop coupe, $6,320 (P.O.E. East Coast), and the convertible $525 cheaper...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Compacts v. the World | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...Mercedes-Benz's new 220 SE hardtop coupe with a hand-buffed walnut interior trim, and a 134-h.p. fuel-injection engine. Top speed: 105 m.p.h. Price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Compacts v. the World | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

...with youngsters once a week, hiring a lifeguard to watch over them. He likes to watch himself on one of his six TV sets, greets his twice-weekly taped appearance with "There's the monster." After a scant breakfast. Moran drives to his office in his four-door hardtop Ford Galaxie. riffles through the mail on his 12-ft. desk, then begins his daily tour of his auto empire. He pops into the new-car showroom, opening new-car doors to make sure the interior is clean, checks to see how sales are going. In the service department...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: The Arabian Bazaar | 3/24/1961 | See Source »

...Connecticut if that would help.) Financier Alexander Guterma surprisingly got three, but betrayed Dual-Ghia owners everywhere by landing in jail. With status seekers from Beverly Hills to Mount Kisco still clamoring for Dual-Ghias, Dual-Motors last week announced that it will have a new Dual-Ghia hardtop for sale this fall, to be called the "Ghia 6-4-L." Unlike the old car, the new one will be assembled in Italy, exported to the U.S. at the rate of 35 a year. Other new features: air conditioning, a speed near 140 m.p.h.-and a statusmanlike new price...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Gone Ghias | 8/22/1960 | See Source »

Command Pilot Bulli's first business was to get his eight-jet B-52 combat-ready. Aircraft No. 264 was towed to a spot near Runway 05 called "the Christmas Tree," a hardtop strip that is branched with parking stubs, one for each alert plane. The six-man air crew then spent three hours "cocking" the plane so that it would be ready for instant takeoff. They ran through pages of checklist items, threw on selected switches that would bring scores of units to life as soon as the main power was turned on. Pilot Bulli finished his part...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: 15 MINUTES TO BEAT THE BOMB | 3/14/1960 | See Source »

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