Word: manse
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Their leader, who makes his cathedral headquarters in the Marienkirche, is one of the world's great churchmen: Friedrich Karl Otto Dibelius, 72, bishop of the Berlin-Brandenburg diocese and, as head of the united German Evangelical Church, the primate of all German Protestants. Jailed by the Nazis and...
Nash's Le Mans. To its Nash-Healey sports-car line, Nash Motors added a coupé, the Le Mans. Designed by Pinin Farina, it is low-slung (55 in. high) and racy, has a six-cylinder 140 h.p. engine (up from last year's 125 h.p.). Price...
Home-grown Hot Rods. Nash pioneered with its Nash-Healey, assembled it abroad with a British chassis, an Italian body (by Pinin Farina), and Nash engine and transmission, etc. The car was good enough to take third in the 24-hour Le Mans race in France last year, perhaps the...
To show the importance of the new sports-car trend, G.M. unwrapped three other futuristic sports cars, also made of fiber glass. Cadillac's three-passenger Le Mans is only 51 in. high to the top of its windshield, 5.3 in. lower than standard jobs, and 24.8 in. shorter...
The final day was a Mercédès parade. Veteran Kling drove his lightweight (under 2,000 Ibs.) aluminum-bodied racer at a 160-m.p.h. clip over stretches of the final lap. Kling's overall average: 102 m.p.h., shattering the 1951 Ferrari record of 88.09 m.p.h. Hermann...