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...Manhattan's Coliseum last week a record number of marine builders (397) launched the 48th National Motor Boat Show wlth a record number of boats (455). The boatbuilders were optimistic for 1958, expected that spending of waterborne Americans would top last year's record $1.91 billion...
...about, such as the 46-ft. Wheeler sports fisherman at $60,000, the bulk of the boats were designed for the middle-and lower-income groups, who do most of the buying. More than half the boats were for outboards, which have been souped up-and quieted down. Kiekhaefer Motor Co. showed off its Mark 78, the most powerful outboard (70 h.p.) on display (price: $960). Evinrude and Johnson exhibited the first four-cylinder V-type outboards - 50-h.p. engines priced at $750 to $850-which, they bragged, were almost free of vibration. Scott-Atwater showed the first three-cylinder...
...rhythmic, graceful waves of disciplined traffic. Traffic policemen are never seen on roads normally. They rush in from police stations only if there is an accident or anything untoward happens. All public buses invariably run on time, and are rarely overcrowded. The minimum sounding of the horn, by all motor vehicles, is amazing...
Pondering the orderly flow of U.S. motor cars ("commonly called 'automobiles"). Captain Gnanaolivu found that it was due partly to an unusual practice; i.e., roads are used only by motorists and sidewalks only by pedestrians. But above and beyond this mutually exclusive assignment of territory, the captain in 50 days discovered an ethical explanation that had a genuine looking-glass tinge: "All this is done spontaneously, with an inner urge in every man and woman to obey traffic regulations and not because a policeman is there to book them...
STRIPPED-DOWN MERCURY, to be named the Medalist, will be brought out by Ford Motor Co. this month to buck increasing sales competition from fancier models of the low-priced three. Suggested list prices: $2,324 for two-door sedan, $2,390 for four-door-about $100 cheaper than lowest-priced Mercury models now on sale, and less than Ford Fairlane...