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...municipal Rome's newest effort to cope with traffic jams that make an eternity of crossing the Eternal City. Plagued by an ever-growing (up 400,000 since World War II), ever-moving population, Rome's traffic planners route fleets of Fiats and thundering herds of motor scooters through narrow alleys designed for carriages and litters. Whole areas of Rome have become all but impossible to reach by car; so congested is the area around the Pantheon that many cab drivers flatly refuse to take passengers there...
...shepherded with anxious concern by a coaching staff that knows that S.M.U., with not much of a ground offensive, is heavily dependent on his bullwhip right arm. The coaches have still not recovered from the shock of learning that Meredith risked their livelihood by repeatedly falling off a motor scooter while navigating the winding roads of Majorca last summer. Cracks one coach: "If something happens to Meredith, we'll have to resort to the confused T with the unbalanced coach in motion...
Leading the automakers' third-quarter reports was Ford Motor Co., which had earnings of $53.2 million, or 97? per share, v. a $14.9 million loss in the same period last year. The buoyant third period pushed Ford's nine-month earnings to $6.19 per share. Studebaker-Packard had a third-period net of $3,399,779, or 53? per share, v. a loss of $9,200,000 last year, pushed its nine-month earnings to $2.39 per share. Chrysler, hit hard by expansion and new model costs, reported a third-quarter loss of $34.2 million, highest...
...Harvard Motor Sports Club won its second team award of the season at a gymkhana sponsored by the Babson Institute Sports Car Club in Wellesley yesterday. Last week the HMSC captured the team prize at the Belknap Hillclimb of the Boston Motor Sports Club in Laconia...
...share for the nation's biggest electrical-equipment firm. Giant International Business Machines had a nine-month profit of $102 million, up 10%. Drugs, retailing and food companies all were up, with cheery reports from R. H. Macy & Co., Upjohn Co., Kroger Co. Ford Motor was doing so well that it declared a 60? extra dividend, the first since public sale of its stock...