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...with a big American grille. The Riviera will have a 117-in. wheelbase, 340-h.p. engine, and come in a four-passenger, two-door, hardtop model. Chevrolet, also hoping to cut in on the Thunderbird, plans to introduce a Corvette model with the "fastback look" (Detroitese for the convex rear lines popularized by Jaguar's hot XK-E). The big Chevrolet will have its rear doctored to resemble the pointed silhouette of this year's Chevy II. Pontiac will set its dual headlights vertically, and on the pizazz Grand Prix plans to introduce a new "prestige" color: iridescent...
...Thunderbird's crisp roof line. The intermediate Fairlane and Meteor will add station wagon models and both will change their grilles, the Fairlane from flat to concave and the Meteor to a forward thrust. The standard-size Galaxie will have its massive circular taillights set into cylindrically sculptured rear fenders in a kind of twin jet effect. So that customers can tell a Mercury from a Ford, the Monterey will boast a reverse-sloping rear window that can be opened and shut electrically from a dashboard switch...
Algeria radio program to announce that "the ban is now lifted" on the departure of European men of fighting age. The panicky exodus-already reaching 70,000 Europeans a week-was spurred by the threat that those who remained would have "no schools, no homes, no services." An S.A.O. rear guard promised to carry out the destruction of the emptied cities...
...laps, Hill seemed unbeatable. His B.R.M. was clearly the fastest car in the race, and he held a lead of nearly a minute over his closest pursuers: New Zealand's Bruce McLaren, in a Cooper-Climax, and California's Phil Hill, the 1961 world champion, driving a rear-engined, blood-red Ferrari. But it was not Graham Hill's day. His engine suddenly dropped a load of oil and conked out-McLaren spurted ahead. The Ferrari mechanics flashed "Faster!" at Phil Hill, and Phil desperately pushed his accelerator to the floor. Turning his Ferrari furiously around...
...France, then expanded into Italy, South Africa. India and Brazil. Today the company operates 26 factories in nine countries, manufactures 80% of what it sells v. only 25% in 1956. Design has been so meticulously standardized, says Thornbrough, that "we can get an engine from Peterborough, transmissions from Coventry, rear axles and hydraulics from France and fit them in with other parts in Detroit, India or Brazil, and make a completely assembled tractor to specifications...