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...shifted dangerously, so that car must be set out on a siding. Though a fast train like Super C means less working time for the crews, Burk says he prefers handling a longer, heavier train: "It's the difference between a Sunday outing in the family sedan and driving a racing car. Here you've got a lot of power and you've got to keep the speed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Fast Freight: Across the U.S. on Super C | 7/19/1971 | See Source »

...black sedan was furious. "That will cost you dearly," he cried. "You don't know who I am, but I'm a high police official." He made an appointment to meet her at headquarters the next...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: FRANCE: Woman's Lip | 6/28/1971 | See Source »

After the 500, Donohue and Revson will fly to Boston for Monday's Bryar Trans-Am race. Bryar Motorsports Park, located just east of Concord, N. H., about 90 minutes from here, plays host to the Sponts Car Club of America's sedan racers. Javelin drivers Donohue and Revson will have as their chief competitors '63 Indy winner Parnelli Jones and Peter H. Gregg '61 in last year's championship-winning Bud Moore Mustangs...

Author: By Stephen J. Potter, | Title: Ivy Graduates Will Lead Fastest Indy 500 Field | 5/28/1971 | See Source »

...dangerous. In a narrow South Jersey channel, flanked by buildings and shadowed by vehicular traffic, the Joneses are nearly run down by the Kuddle-Toi, Too, an expanse of costly cabin cruiser operated by a corpulent man who apparently makes little distinction between yachting and barreling a large sedan. "We're gonna crush your crappy little boat!" cries the man's wife, as Mrs. Jones skillfully mars the word Kuddle with her paddle. In Delaware, Jones accidentally splits his wife's scalp with an anchor, and later nearly comes to grief against a drawbridge as a guest...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Merrily, Merrily | 5/24/1971 | See Source »

...however, when a German major, flying in a snowstorm, was forced down in Belgium with a full set of war plans that was seized by the Allies. The substitute plan sent General Heinz Guderian's spectacular armored thrust through the seemingly impassable Ardennes to catch the French near Sedan, a critically weak point in their defenses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Saltcellar War | 5/17/1971 | See Source »

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