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...Madrid dressed in sports clothes more suitable to a workman; he and his wife live in a small, unpretentious apartment, and he rolls his own small black cigarettes. Unlike other Cabinet ministers who tool around Madrid in chauffeur-driven Cadillacs and Mercedeses, Munoz Grandes favors a small black sedan. Once he drove along Madrid's streets stopping chauffeured military cars whose only passengers were army wives, politely asked them to get out and take taxis, and told the drivers to go back to the motor pool...
...continued. This time a fortune was at stake. Walking into Newsboy's cell, the county prosecutor announced: "You've just lost $2½ million.'' Back in Jersey City, two carpenters working on an ancient garage had pried open the trunk of an abandoned 1947 Plymouth sedan. Inside they found a cache of several guns and a small mountain of large-denomination bills. The trail led straight to Newsboy: with the money were bonds made out to him and his deceased brother, as well as a dossier on one of Newsboy's arrests, which had been...
...growing in every direction. At home in the U.S., G.M.'s bread-and-butter car, the standard-sized Chevrolet, was outselling the rival Ford Galaxie by nearly 2 to 1. In Germany, G.M.'s Opel subsidiary was gearing up for fall introduction of its new Kadett economy sedan which seemed certain to lift still higher G.M.'s 11% share of world auto sales outside the U.S. In space, the giant automaker's AC Spark Plug division won a $16 million contract to build the guidance system for the Apollo moonship. And good as all this...
...last fortnight, Cartoonist Batchelor, whose personal driving record is well-nigh unblemished, finished the 1,001st contribution to his crusade, drove out for a weekend at his country home in Connecticut. There, behind the wheel of his 1950 Jaguar sedan (Conn, license ITU-for Inviting the Undertaker), with his wife at his side. Cartoonist Batchelor ran head-on into real-life inspiration for his 1,002nd traffic cartoon...
...coupe called Jetfire, with bucket seats in front and a turbosupercharged high-compression engine capable of delivering 215 horses (price: $3,039). Stude-baker's new Avanti (TIME, April 13) is a rakish restyling from inside out designed to narrow still further the gap between the family sedan and the gran turismo...