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Americans and British backed the Ger mans, and in the end, under severe pressure, Paris gave way and allowed Bonn to go through with the amendment. Next day, President Theodor Heuss added his signature, and it was promulgated as the law of the land in West Germany.
¶Cadillac has used its 1953 Le Mans experimental car as the model for the 1954 line. The Cadillac has a new sweep, with a wrap-around windshield, larger tail fins, and jutting, jetlike exhaust pipes. There is a new suspension system, a more powerful engine (up to 230 h.p...
The realm of animal behavior is the special concern of Donald R. Griffin '38, professor of Zoology. He is particularly interested in echolocation, the ability of animals such as bats and birds to navigate in the dark by mans of their sensitivity to supersonic sounds.
Of 136 major auto races, Nuvolari won 72, could blame most of his defeats on car failure. He took every big European race at least once-the Grand Prix, Le Mans, the Mille Miglia. Superstitious, he liked always to have a hunchback friend nearby when he raced, for good luck...
But the race went on. The winning car: a British Jaguar driven by Tony Rolt and C. Duncan Hamilton, which set a Le Mans distance record of 2,535 miles. The Jaguar's average speed: 106 m.p.h., cracking the old record of 96.7 set last year by a German...