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There were two things that every good race driver in the world knew about the 24-hour Grand Prix of Endurance at Le Mans. France. First, it was still the supreme test of driving skill and sports-car durability. And second, it was growing increasingly risky because of the conglomeration...
Khrushchev stepped back expectantly, offered Tito the microphone for reply. Tito, poker-faced, impassively motioned Khrushchev toward the waiting cars. Obviously startled, Khrushchev docilely acquiesced. Through crowds chanting: "Ti-to. Tito, Ti-to," the cavalcade of Rolls-Royces, Cadillacs, Packards, Buicks and Mercedes Benzes sped to a constrained tea at...
DAIMLER-BENZ, one of Germany's biggest automakers with exports to 117 nations (1954 sales: $240 million), will soon start a separate U.S. subsidiary to help supply its expanding U.S. and Canadian markets. The company will set up its own multimillion-dollar factory somewhere in the Eastern U.S., start...
* Optional, at extra cost, in 1955 Lincolns and Mercurys, old hat in the Rolls-Royce (since 1978) and such other class cars as Mercedes-Benz, Daimler, prewar Packard.
¶ The uncertain future. A tire or tie-rod failure on a Mercedes-Benz, an army plot like the two Pérez Jiménez staged, or a simple slip-up by a guard or a food-taster might remove the strongman from the scene. Lacking democracy's...