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UPPER MEDIUM PRICE CLASS. Oldsmo bile 98 Holiday De Luxe, 18.66 m.p.g., 50.94 t.m.p.g.; Buick Super Riviera, 17.77 m.p.g., 48.95 t.m.p.g.; De Soto Fireflite Sportsman, 17.83 m.p.g., 47.34 t.m.p.g...
...miles more than the runner-up, a Pontiac Chieftain Catalina (51.72 ton miles per gallon), and 13 miles more than the average 48.65 t.m.p.g. It was also well ahead of the others in the High Price Class-the Packard 400, which did 50.32 t.m.p.g., and the Buick Roadmaster Riviera, which averaged 48.25 t.m.p.g. But in straight mileage, regardless of weight, a Nash Rambler did best of all, running 24.35 miles per gallon, v. 21.04 for the Imperial...
...throes of change. There is a new master--Charles H. Taylor, Henry Charles Lea Professor of Mediaeval History; the Junior common room is about to be soundproofed and renovated; and the University has at long last decided to improve the appearance of the courtyard--shrubs, flower beds, and a Riviera-like sun terrace are contemplated...
...rites (see PRESS). Italy's limpid-eyed Cinemorsel Marisa Pavan, 23, an Oscar nominee for her supporting role in The Rose Tattoo, was going to marry France's dashing Cinemale Jean Pierre Aumont this summer; she thought he was "about 42" (he is 46), pooh-poohed his Riviera trysts with Grace Kelly as "just a publicity stunt." One of Grace's bridesmaids, TV and Movie Actress Rita Gam, 27, cooed throatily at her new fiancé. Yaleman Thomas Guinzburg, 29, a co-founder of the new-directional, English-language quarterly Paris Review. Onetime Cineminor Joyce (Boy Trouble...
...where he stables his string of race horses. In Switzerland, where he spends several weeks a year, he is known as an expert skier. On two continents he is known as a knowledgeable art collector; he recently paid $300,000 for El Greco's Pietà. On the Riviera, Niarchos keeps a fleet of sports cars, to shuttle between his two Cap d'Antibes palaces, and two yachts: the black-hulled, 190-ft. schooner Creole (a 32-man crew) and "a little one," the 103-ft. Eros. Niarchos delights in packing celebrities off on prepaid Mediterranean cruises, although...