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Outside, U.S. Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., 61, winces at the blast of heat that is already approaching 90° with 90% humidity. With a Vietnamese plainclothes bodyguard, he climbs into the back seat of a Checker Marathon sedan. The car rolls past barbed-wire stanchions, stops 15 minutes later in front of the ugly U.S. Embassy building at 39 Ham Nghi Boulevard. There, barricades block sidewalk passersby, while barbed wire funnels visitors past South Vietnamese soldiers into a lobby guarded by U.S. Marines...
...dear old, bloody old England of telephone poles and tin." Greater London is being choked by its population explosion; its birth rate is six times that of the rest of the country. Traffic is so congested in the city that when a magazine staged a race between a sedan chair and a sports car, the sedan chair won. Last week, after a 2½-year study, the Tories announced a mammoth project to be started within ten years and designed to ease the strangulating conditions in southeast England...
...Baker was swinging pulled out of the ceiling and crashed to the floor. A battling horde of Romans and Persians, practicing in Spain's Guadarra-mas for Samuel Bronston's The Fall of the Roman Empire, parts momentarily as someone drives through the battle in his Fiat sedan. Bronston hops about, small and spiffy, like the little man who was once the mascot of Esquire magazine. His spectaculars turn out to be most spectacular of all when, in one panoramic shot, the viewer can see not only 1,000 charging horses and riders but also the armies...
...probably its price-less than $2,500. At any rate, Buhlie was not letting the matter disrupt his own plans. A few days after he unmasked the Mustang, he and Barbara Monroe Posselius, 18, were married in Grosse Pointe. The happy couple rode away in a 1964 Mercury sedan...
...Royal Academy of Arts, an 18th century addict who considered modern buildings "cellular facades cloaked with vitreous indifference," believed that "nothing should be streamlined except water closets," himself eschewed electricity and telephones, entertained in wig and knee breeches and paid calls on special occasions reclining regally in a sedan chair; of heart disease, in Ampthill, Bedfordshire...