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...Sidecar. For the next six weeks, as the three party leaders crisscross the republic on their campaign trains, their speeches will underline how fundamentally similar their views all are. All three are in favor of "new initiatives" in German reunification and for continuing support of NATO and the European alliance. On domestic issues, there are only some small differences. If Erhard fares well but misses an absolute majority, he will probably call on the more congenial Free Democrats again, but some of his followers are muttering about the possibility of a "grand coalition" with the Social Democrats if he does...
...long as Erhard is running things. Last week he denounced a grand coalition as an S.P.D. "dream that it can coast through the finish line in the C.D.U.'s sidecar." The Socialists' Willy Brandt hinted that he would be only too delighted to join any coalition at all, since such talk could help him in the campaign...
...equal parts of compassion, reminiscence and rue. Tognazzi is the perfect dupe, a tragicomic caricature. Spouting patriotic songs and slogans, he is dispatched to Abruzzi to capture and bring back to Rome a Professor Bonafe (Georges Wilson), described as "the greatest living thinker." He gets the prisoner into the sidecar of his motorcycle, but the partisans take potshots at it, the Allies drop bombs around it, and the Nazis requisition it. He switches to a German amphibious vehicle that sinks. He finds a Fascist bicycle-built-for-two and rides triumphantly into the Eternal City-which the G.I.s have taken...
...Autobahn outside Munich, German Motorcyclist Wilhelm Noll set two new unofficial world records for motor cycle with sidecar, with his super-streamlined, three-wheeled B.M.W. (Bayerische Motoren Werke) bike (see cut). From a flying start, Noll hit speeds of 282 kilometers (175 m.p.h.) over a measured kilometer, and 177 m.p.h. over a mile...
...sleek Jag was born in a motorcycle sidecar. Jaguar's creator is a Lancashire-born mechanic named William Lyons, 50, who in 1922 opened a small shop in Blackpool to make hand-built cycle sidecars "for the discriminating few." As he prospered, Lyons decided he could improve on Britain's towering, square-rigged auto bodies, moved to Coventry and opened the Swallow Coachbuilding Co., Ltd. In 1931, he turned out his first car, the Swallow Special (quickly known simply as the "S.S."), built on a British Standard's chassis. The Daily Mail called...