Word: sedan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...next car in line, an open touring sedan containing agents bristling with weapons, followed swiftly. In the third car, an open convertible carrying the Lyndon Johnsons and Texas' Democratic Senator Ralph Yarborough, security agents yelled for the passengers to duck low, and that car followed in wild pursuit...
...units to 250,000 this year, and that its world wide sales will jump almost 10%, to $1.75 billion. In Germany, hopeful buyers still have to wait up to six weeks for delivery of a standard VW and three months for the company's bigger, costlier 1500 sedan (TIME, Sept...
...officially designated the 1200. The 1500 is about six inches longer and three inches wider than the 1200, has fairly orthodox lines and a pronounced front hood -even though its more powerful engine remains in the rear. It sells in Germany for $1,500 for a two-door sedan, $300 more than the 1200 sedan, also comes as a station wagon for $1,600. Nordhoff hopes to double output of the bigger Volkswagen to 2,000 cars daily within six months, will slightly cut back production of the standard Volkswagen to achieve this...
Perhaps the unhappiest example of Memorial Day slaughter occurred near Cornwall, Conn. A sports car in which two young men were leaving a beer party climbed a grade along Bunker Hill on a clear afternoon, somehow skidded into the wrong lane, crashed head-on into a sedan. In the sedan, Albert Wilklow, 42, and his entire family (Wife Georgette, 37, Sons Albert Jr., 14, Frank, 12, and Daughter Paula, 10) were returning to their home in Torrington, Conn., after a day of fishing at a state park. All five died in the flaming crash. So did the occupants...
...year is 1900. In a dragon-encrusted ballroom reminiscent of the lobby of Grauman's Chinese Theater, David Niven, the British ambassador to Peking, is throwing a diplomatic ball to celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday. The music stops, and there is a shiver of terror: a brocaded sedan chair brings Prince Tuan, complete with jeweled-gold fingernail scabbards and about as welcome as Dr. Fu Manchu at a meeting of the A.M.A. Prince Tuan (ex-dancer Robert Helpmann) is the leader of the "Fists of Righteousness" (known as Boxers in the occidental press), those marauding rebels...