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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...
...shapely brunette in sausage-tight skirt stepped from the shadows to the curb as the small Fiat pulled up. "Good evening," she chirped to the leering youth behind the wheel. "Want to come with me?" Just then a cream-colored Lancia sedan eased alongside the Fiat, horn beeping and headlights flicking on and off. Two well-dressed, well-groomed girls smiled invitingly at the young man. "Hello there, want to go for a ride?'' crooned one, ignoring the streetwalker. "Then follow us." The Fiat roared after the Lancia, and the streetwalker retreated snarling to the shadows...
...song). In 1956 Stravinsky set himself the task of "recomposing" three Gesualdo madrigals for orchestra. The results added up to little more than deft exercises in Stravinskian orchestration, but the audience warmly applauded the ailing, 78-year-old composer (he was carried up and down stairs in a sedan chair...
...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...
...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...