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RUSSIAN AUTO, the Moskvitch 407, will be offered for sale in U.S. this summer for under $2,000. Four-cylinder four-seater has top speed of 70 m.p.h., claims 36 miles per gallon...
...heart attack; in Rome. Once known in the U.S. as the "Flying Fascist," De Bernardi was a World War I ace (nine enemy planes), flew experimental jets as early as 1940, in recent years put all his savings into the development of a two-cylinder, 40-h.p. single-seater not much bigger than the dragonfly for which it was named. Last week De Bernardi heard that a group of aviation experts had collected at a Roman airport to watch some German pilots demonstrate a new light plane. Hopping on his motor scooter, he zipped out to the field, took...
...foreign-car import market that is expected to top 500,000 units this year. Even England's staid old Daimler, best known for the limousines it builds for Britain's royal family, introduced a car specially designed for the U.S. market: a sleek, two-seater Daimler Dart sports car with speeds up to 123 m.p.h. and gas mileage of better than 30 miles per gal. On sale in the U.S. next year, the Dart will be priced at about $3,800. Some other show stoppers...
...small-car men hardly touched their existing models this year. Instead, they concentrated on bringing out a fleet of brand-new cars to fill in the gaps in their lines and expand their growing markets still more. Italy's Fiat brought out an 81-h.p. hardtop two-seater to compete in the $3,200 price class with Britain's popular Austin Healeys, added a new baby line called the "Jolly," with four wicker seats and a price tag of about $1,000. France's big-selling Simca has a new line of medium-priced...
Formed in 1904, the Flying Club has been inactive in recent years because it had no airplane. But last year Robert A. Bryan, a student at the Divinity School, offered the club the use of his two-seater. Members pay the insurance on Bryan's plane, and buy their own fuel...