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...development operations division of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency at Huntsville, Ala., stands out as the inspirational as well as the scientific leader of the Men of Jupiter. At 18 Von Braun was working with crude liquid-fuel rockets, using Berlin's municipal dump; one day a black sedan stopped. Three German army officers stepped out, offered Von Braun military facilities to carry on his rocket work. At 20 he was chief of the entire German rocket program; at 32, working in the Nazi rocket center at Peenemünde, he built Germany's V2, which rained ruin...
Last week Campanella was driving to his home in Glen Cove, N.Y. when his rented 1957 Chevrolet sedan went off the road and crashed into a telephone pole. Campy was bent into a pretzel within the overturned car. His bull neck probably saved him from death, but the impact fractured the fifth and sixth cervical vertebrae and compressed the spinal cord. He was paralyzed from the shoulders down. For more than four hours, a team of three surgeons worked over him. At week's end sensation and strength were beginning to flow back through his rugged body...
STRIPPED-DOWN MERCURY, to be named the Medalist, will be brought out by Ford Motor Co. this month to buck increasing sales competition from fancier models of the low-priced three. Suggested list prices: $2,324 for two-door sedan, $2,390 for four-door-about $100 cheaper than lowest-priced Mercury models now on sale, and less than Ford Fairlane...
...small-car sales of its 108-in. -wheelbase Ramblers, American Motors has made an even smaller, 100-in.-wheelbase 1958 Rambler American. Aside from a redesigned grille and trim, the car is a reissue of the first economical (up to 35 miles per gallon) five-passenger, two-door Rambler sedan introduced in 1951, dropped by 1956. Plain and simple, the 90-h.p. American even comes with a do-it-yourself instruction book to cut repair bills. American Motors' President George Romney says it will compete directly with the $1,795 Studebaker-Packard Scotsman and foreign cars, will have...
Bumper Crop. In Richmond, Pedestrian Fred Van de Water observed on the windshield of a large four-door sedan a neatly printed, unsigned note that read: "You may not realize that a small English sports car is parked behind you. Please be careful not to run it down...