Word: racer
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...late, great auto racer...
...from son David, 12, was soulful and wide-eyed, so Tennessee Senator Estes Kefauver ambled outside for a look. There, smart as paint, stood a neighbor's new, factory-built scooter (equipped with a 2½-h.p. engine) that David wanted in trade for his old, homemade soapbox racer. Brightly, the Keef decided that he'd better take a ride-just to make sure the deal was fair and square. Democrat Kefauver, all of 6 ft. 3 in., hunched himself in, buzzed off down a hill sporting the widest of aha-the-voters smirks. Soon learning that momentum...
...daring gamble, he hired four experts, put them to work in Los Angeles. Using a special fuel-injection system, they developed 361 h.p. in a big (5.5 liters) Chevrolet engine. Double-size drum brakes were another innovation. The result was the Scarab-a low, shovel-nosed racer that quickly won its spurs by outrunning the long-dominant Ferraris, Maseratis and Jaguars produced in Europe...
...attacked box lunches. A little boy fell into an artificial lake and sputtered up, screaming. A little girl got a hula-hoop lesson from her dad. Linda Christian, Ty's exwife, who had put on such a spectacular performance at the Italian burial of her good friend. Auto Racer Alfonso de Portago, made Hollywood headlines by staying away from the funeral at Debbie's request. If the crowd had any disappointment, it was that only one woman fainted...
...bright-painted metal. On view at Italy's oldest and biggest auto show were the pride and joy of the world's automakers: 64 models from twelve nations, including General Motors' opulent Cadillac, Czechoslovakia's tanklike Tatra, Britain's 150-m.p.h. Aston Martin racer. But the stars of the show were not the big, the swift or the beautiful. They were the small, neatly styled economy cars that spark the biggest boom Europe's automakers have ever known. This year the industry will produce better than 4,500,000 small cars-and export something...