Word: lifts
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...been a field strategist as well as a campaigner, firing back his analysis of what other G.O.P. campaigners can do, where and when they should do it. As his travels have progressed, his crowds have grown in size and warmth, and he has given the G.O.P. cause a vital lift all over the U.S. Says Victor Johnston, director of the Republican Senatorial Campaign Committee: "He's the best campaigner we've got, bar none...
Studebaker pinned its hopes on a face lift: new wraparound grilles and rear bumpers, plus a longer look-2 in. added to sedans, almost 6 in. to station wagons. The company plans to raise Studebaker output at least 17.5% to 103,000 units in 1957, will show its Packard in December at the New York Auto Show...
...sudden explosion of indignation in press and public was sparked by a story in London's garish Sunday Pictorial, a newspaper which seldom earns such international attention. A Pictorial reporter had been given a lift in a limousine into The Hague, and had thereby "become the confidant of a man closer to the Queen than almost anyone else." According to the reporter, the man who gave him the ride told of a plot, designed with the connivance of Prince' Bernhard's 72-year-old German mother, Princess Armgard, to force Queen Juliana off the throne. "Lies about...
Admitting only that he had given the British newsman a lift, Van Maasdijk promptly denied the rest of the story. But whether the Pictorial spoke the truth or not, declared the potent Het Vrije Volk, the whole thing was "a shameful affair which shows the necessity not only of being in earnest about changes at the court but also of making haste...
American Motors also got into the auto race this week with the 1957 Rambler, which it hopes will pull it out of the financial red next year. Like the Chevrolet, the new Rambler, completely redesigned in 1956, is getting only a face-lift this year. Main improvement: a more conservative rear-body treatment to de-emphasize the car's boxy appearance. The Rambler will give buyers a choice of three engines, ranging from a standard 125-h.p., six-cylinder model to its first V-8 engine, rated at 190 h.p. Introducing the new Rambler, American Motors President George Romney...