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Lincoln-Mercury. Mercury also has a new intermediate, the Meteor. It shares the Fairlane's body shell, but its rear-end treatment (tubular fender ornaments culminating in a missile-like stop light) is similar to the new full-size Mercury Monterey. Except for a more stately front grill, Lincoln's handsome Continental remains unchanged...
Thunderbird will be pizazzier than ever, and is shrouded in such secrecy that industry sources predict a big "surprise." The intermediate Mercury Meteor is essentially the same body shell as the Fairlane, with dual headlights and tubular taillights. Lincoln, in keeping with Ford policy of styling continuity over four-year periods, is making only minor trim and grille changes...
...Class of '41 was on a space kick. Members displayed some really far-out signs; some of the best (or worst) were "Let's play space tennis--you bring the rockets," "Pleased to meteor," "Is your wife backwards? Give her a retro-rocket for Xmas," "There is no lead in our astronaut," and "Insist on a genuine Van Allen belt...
...priced line of Mercurys. Ford moved Mercury down from the medium-priced field, once more underlining the sharp decline in sales of medium-priced cars, which have slipped from nearly 40% of the market in 1955 to only 19.6% this year. Mercury's new low-price series-the Meteor 600 and 800 -are built on the Ford chassis, use six-cylinder engines. Their factory list prices will start at about $2,150 (v. $2,389 for the lowest-priced 1960 Mercury...
...testing device known as the shock tube. The problems of nose-cone re-entry were fearsome enough on paper. It was understood all too well that an ICBM re-entry body of cone and warhead would have to crash back into the earth's atmosphere at near-meteor speed of 15,000 m.p.h., with enough motion of energy to vaporize five times its weight of iron. Piling up ahead of the re-entry body would be a high-pressure air layer reaching up to 15,000° F.-about 1½ times...