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...shrinking, wrinkling, yellowing and harmful effects of some laundry bleaches. ¶Chrysler Corp. rolled out a sleek blue, six-passenger experimental sport car, whose hard-top body was made by Italy's Carrazzeria Ghia. Built on a 125-inch wheelbase (v. 145-2-for Chrysler Crown Imperials), the low-slung "K-310" is 18 ft. 4½ in. overall. It has the same basic engine as the Imperial, but horsepower has been stepped up from 180 to 310; the car can do 150 m.p.h. Added feature: a spare tire that can be swung out easily from the trunk compartment...
...Cisitalia (Italy): a sleek, low-slung car with a grill resembling "the cut end of a cigar...
...chair heretofore reserved for eminent public figures. Last week, just before the retreat in Korea, Lord Hives was paid the kind of compliment he likes even better. The British Commonwealth 29th Brigade went into action with what some experts call the West's best heavy tank, the low-slung, 52-ton Centurion. It is powered by a 635-h.p. Rolls-Royce Meteor engine that Hives helped develop...
Many recent writers have described and documented the technically perfected destruction that must come with a future war--the fast destruction from a flaring rocket or a low-slung tank, the lingering poison of a radioactive cloud. Professor Albert J. Guerard has undercut these catalogues of killing in "Night Journey," '5 future war by writing about the men who must fight it. He has written a frighteningly plausible story of those men and their...
Mason's "N.X.I." (Nash-Experimental-International) is a low-slung, two-seater convertible big enough for portly President Mason and a passenger. Built along the lines of a heavier car, the N.X.I, is 12 ft. 1 in. long (the smallest Ford is 16 ft. 4 in.), has an 84-in. wheel base, and is designed to be powered by a low (18 to 36) horsepower foreign engine such as Italy's Fiat. Depending on the horsepower, the N.X.I, would go 35 to 50 miles on a gallon, have a top speed of 60 to 70 m.p.h., and cost...