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PONTIAC has lowered its hood and roof, widened the seats and gained a suave look reminiscent of that car of distinction, Ford's old Lincoln Continental. A styling touch: the instrument-panel clock is in the center of a concentric-ringed radio speaker. Pontiac has dropped its Torpedo line in favor of the Chieftain. Both it and the Streamliner come as 90-h.p. sixes or 103-h.p. eights. Optional Hydra-Matic transmission ($185 extra) has proved so popular it will be built into 75% of all Pontiacs...
Eastbound from Okinawa, the big Air Force C-54 droned steadily into the night. At .glowing instrument board and hood-lighted desk the six men of its crew worked. In the cabin the passengers, 31 Spokane-bound soldiers of the 98th Bomber Group, shifted uncomfortably in their bucket seats and tried to sleep...
...engine of Hose Truck Number 5 began to boil over. Firefighters lifted the hood and stuck a hose into the water tank. The hose slipped out and bathed about ten more spectators...
...Good Omen. At the end, just in front of the university macebearer, came General Ike himself, wearing the hood of an honorary LL.D. (trimmed in purple, for Law, and lined in blue & white, for Columbia). A ripple of applause followed Eisenhower down the aisle; he grinned at old friends like General Omar Bradley and Admiral Thomas C. Kincaid, and saluted Elder Statesman Bernard Baruch...
...automobile clubs reported other gripes: angled windshields gave more vision in many directions, but they also admitted more glare. Short drivers had difficulty in seeing over the hood. Slanting rear windows looked pretty but they collected snow in winter. Almost all the new cars were bigger or more powerful than their earlier prototypes; they rode easier, had a faster pickup and greater speed. Compared to prewar models they looked like custom-built guided missiles. What was worrying their owners was the job of keeping them that...