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...newspaper ethically go in opposing political candidates? Last week Editor Ruth McCormick ("Bazy") Miller of the Washington Times-Herald purred up to Capitol Hill in her yellow Lincoln sedan to talk over this question with a Senate investigating subcommittee. The Senators wondered if the Times-Herald staff hadn't gone a little far in the campaign which unhorsed Maryland's Senator Millard Tydings last fall...
...efficiency from their fuel. Every major U.S. make, except Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac, was represented. At journey's end, about 21 driving hours later, the cars had traveled from 280 feet below sea level to 7,005 feet above, had covered 840 miles. The winner: a Lincoln sedan, with 66.484 ton-miles per gallon (weight of car and passengers in tons, multiplied by miles, divided by gallons of gasoline consumed). Top places in actual miles per gallon: the six-cylinder Nash Rambler (31.053); the four-cylinder Henry J (30.109); the six-cylinder Henry J (28.860); the six-cylinder Studebaker...
...jackets, no ties. They blinked at the waiting crowds. Berthold Krupp rushed up to older brother Alfried, heir to the bomb-shattered steel and munitions empire (only branch producing: the locomotive works), thrust a bouquet of daffodils and tulips into his hands. The two rode off in a black sedan to a champagne breakfast at Landsberg's best hotel...
Cook got out and flagged down a blue 1949 Chevrolet sedan. It was crowded. A 33-year-old Atwood, 111. farmer named Carl Mosser was taking his wife and three little children on a vacation trip. Cook squeezed in and made them his hostages. During the next three days & nights, the blue Chevrolet traveled almost 2,500 miles in an erratic course around Oklahoma, Texas and Arkansas...
...they found the patrol car with its red light on and its engine running. Less than a mile farther, they found a mana vacationing Seattle salesman named Robert Dewey lying dead with a bullet hole in his head. Dewey's automobile, a blue 1947 Buick sedan, was found that night beside a dusty Mexican road, 50 miles south of the border...