Word: sedan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rain pelted a Chrysler sedan racing through the night toward Lincoln on U.S. 6, a straight and lonely stretch of Nebraska blacktop. The elephantine semitrailers, lumbering west, flung blobs of muddy film at the windshield as the car sped past them, slowing the metronome wipers to largo tempo. Inside, the three people huddled together in the front seat were as melancholy as the weather and the night. Bob Conrad, Nebraska's Democratic senatorial nominee, hunched over the wheel, peering grimly into the darkness. Beside him, pretty, black-haired Helen Abdouch, executive secretary...
...first aluminum V-8 engines ever mass-produced in the U.S. The engines develop 155 h.p., yet weigh only 318 Ibs. The Special has a 112-in. wheelbase (v. 123 in. for standard Buicks), weighs 1,600 Ibs. less. Factory list price for the four-door Special sedan is $2,175. The standard Buicks are more rakish than ever, feature "missile-shaped front fenders," but are 4.7 in. shorter and 2 in. narrower than last year. Prices on the big Buicks, along with Cadillacs, are unchanged...
...been watching the Shah's progress with a cover story in mind, and Beirut Correspondents William McHale and Dennis Fodor have ranged widely over the Iranian countryside. After one trip to the remote rug-making town of Tabriz, McHale had to return to Teheran in "an ancient Russian sedan with weak brakes and uncertain gears. For 15 hours we groaned up hills, whistled down mountain slopes in neutral, while the driver merrily sang Persian war songs and I repeated what I hoped was a perfect act of contrition...
...Corvair sedan is virtually unchanged in appearance. Major mechanical improvement: an air heater that takes its heat from the engine replaces the gasoline heater, which sometimes costs Corvair drivers as much as eight miles per gallon in winter...
...Wednesday night riot that frightened his Cabinet was confined to a small area around the Diet. At the height of the uproar, there was a brisk and continuous flow of taxis and private cars scarcely a block away. All week long, Kishi himself drove around Tokyo in a small sedan, followed by a single car with plainclothesmen. Because he always stopped obediently at traffic lights, no one noticed...