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...Buick has a racier look, a new body lowered between the side rails of the frame to reduce its overall height by 3 in. to 57.2 in. in some models. Buick's engines will go up another 45 h.p. to 300 h.p. on all models except the low-priced Special series, which gets a 25-h.p. boost to 255 h.p. One new gadget: a "safety minder" buzzer, which can be set to remind drivers when they hit the speed limit...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Show Stoppers | 11/12/1956 | See Source »

Occasionally a movie is filmed with racier dialogue in the foreign version than in the American. In the original "Mr. Robert," a character just leers about his flirtations, but in the European filming he mumbles a few blunt lines. Usually it is the other way around. India was upset with "Demetrius and the Gladiators," particularly with the scene with a semi-clad gladiator in the background. All the Asian countries are rigidly strict, removing any embrace that lingers more than a second or two ("depending on the quality...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Movie Madness | 2/21/1955 | See Source »

...happy with the same car as long as it would run. It lasted ten years, and after that we had another Pierce that lasted another ten years." Briggs got his own first car, a Dodge, at 16, graduated to Auburns and Packards at a time when some of his racier friends were racketing around in Stutz Bearcats and Mercer Raceabouts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Millionaire at High Speed | 4/26/1954 | See Source »

Because of its long, slim prow, the United States is racier-looking than most ocean liners. Its hull is black, its superstructure dazzling white. Around the spacious sundeck, 24 aluminum life boats (capacity: 3,280) glisten in the sun; above it all stand two gigantic red, white & blue stacks. They are the biggest stacks in the world-not because the engines need them (actually the stacks are crammed with air-conditioning equipment, blowers, etc.), but because only stacks of their proportions would look right on such a giant...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TRAVEL: Invasion, 1952 | 6/23/1952 | See Source »

Spring, indeed, is the season for running and chasing, and for both the outdoor-inclined and those merely forced out by the weather events get racier as the day grow longer. There are races for pennants, races for cups on the river, races for Olympic berths among strong-legged athletes. Then there is the Race Track...

Author: By Erik Amfithcatrof, Edicard J. Coughlin, Michael J. Halberstam., Cynthia M. Reich, and Malcolm D. Rivkin, S | Title: Spring Tempers Activities, Fashions | 5/1/1952 | See Source »

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