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...motorcade, escorted by 100 Indonesian cops and guarded all along its route by scores of Tommy-gunners, swerved to a halt in the guerrilla-infested jungle of central Java when a sedan bearing Vice President Richard Nixon blew a tire. A trifle shaken, Nixon hurriedly joined his wife Patricia in another car, was soon on his way again...
Gloomy and forbidding vistas opened ahead of the shiny new Nash sedan as it followed the curves of U.S. Highway 101 up the Oregon coast. Dawn had just broken, the light was dim, and at Cape Foulweather, five miles north of Newport (pop. 3,250), the empty roadway sometimes seemed to be curving off into thin air beyond the cliffs...
...Population: 5,091,000, less than half that of Pennsylvania; area: 352,141 square miles, about the size of Texas and Oklahoma combined. † Samples: a 15? can of U.S. pipe tobacco, $2.10; a medium-size refrigerator, $540; a Ford sedan...
...unwilling to call in the police, for bingo games are illegal in Indiana. Finally the woman made a magnanimous gesture. "Well," she said, "I guess the legion needs the $1,000, so I will forget the prize." Then she and her companions got into a shiny new Cadillac sedan and drove...
Rootes's bestseller in the U.S. is his Hillman Minx, a small "economy" car (four-door sedan: $1,699). But Sir William is betting heavily on a new, more expensive sports model: the fast, sporty Sunbeam-Talbot Alpine. First shown in the U.S. last April, the low-cut Alpine later clocked 120 m.p.h. in Belgium's Jabbeke "flying mile" run, and last month chalked up a perfect score in the grueling Alpine Rally endurance test (2,000 miles through 31 mountain passes, five countries). Its engine is basically the same as the Sunbeam-Talbot "90" that last year...