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...series has jumped into fourth spot in sales, seventh place last year. Competition is so intense that Fiat recently chopped prices from 2% to 15% clear across the board on its passenger and commercial line. Not to be outdone, Volkswagen lopped $300 (to $1,750) off its de luxe sedan. But the cut was for the Italian market only...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: Day of the Babies | 11/24/1958 | See Source »

Following centuries-old tribal custom, the family called in a nidilniihi, a diagnostician who works by hand-trembling-but they fetched her in their own 1953 Chevrolet sedan. Diagnostician Emma Teller squatted at Mary's bedside, dusted corn pollen on her upturned right palm, made the zigzag lightning sign with her left forefinger and crooned a ritual chant. As she passed her hand over Mary's body, it began to tremble. From its motion (ni'dilniih) Emma concluded that Mary had somehow offended the Wind Spirits. Her prescription: a chishiji, a two-day sing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Case of Mary Grey-Eyes | 11/10/1958 | See Source »

Prolechariot. In Peking, the Communist press announced the production of a new, de luxe Chinese motorcar-an eight-cylinder, air-conditioned sedan with silk rug carpeting and a scented mahogany dashboard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Sep. 29, 1958 | 9/29/1958 | See Source »

...immediate signal into the alley, the impatient minister ordered his driver, Leonhard Kaiser, to go ahead anyway. Kaiser did so, thereby forcing the conductor of an oncoming trolley car on the main thoroughfare to slam on his emergency brake. As Strauss's grey BMW sedan screeched off toward the chancellery, Good Cop Hahlbohm dutifully noted down its license number...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WEST GERMANY: Man in a Hurry | 9/15/1958 | See Source »

...double it for you in a year." Giuffrè always repaid the loans and interest promptly. Catholic charities invested large sums with him. And all the while, Giuffrè gave unstintingly to the church and its works. Not long after Giuffrè's black custom-built Fiat sedan drew up at the monastery of the Passionist Fathers at Cesta di Copparo, the Passionists had a new monastery, 20 new acres of farm land and an $850,000 Sanctuary to the Blessed Virgin of Peace...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ITALY: The Generous Lender | 9/8/1958 | See Source »

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