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...London's Motor Show last week, the cars that drew the biggest crowds were the racy, low-slung sport models. None got more attention than Jaguar's fast, sleek XK120, which for three years has held the world's speed record (132.6 m.p.h.) for passenger cars. But it was more than speed that made Britons admire the Jaguar; as the Manchester Guardian noted proudly, the Jaguar is "doing a roaring dollar trade." It is now one of the British motor industry's biggest dollar earners...
...York). It has since sold 4,000. Last spring Ford started making a slightly bigger version, the Zephyr 6. But the British automakers still manage to dominate the American small car market. Since 1949 they have nearly doubled the sales of Hillmans, Austins and the low-slung MG. It now looks as if the market for small cars is finally getting big enough to make it really worth while for U.S. automakers...
...Kurdistan, and you're almost sure to attract such a visitor. He comes thundering down on you as though he were leading a cavalry charge. A tasseled turban flies above his fierce, lean face, and the wind turns his wide, baggy pants into balloons. A rifle is slung across his back, and from the sash about his waist there hangs a great, curved dagger. As he reins up, he scowls ferociously and you murmur "Salaam" or "Marhaba" in greeting. Then, chances are, he will turn without a word or a sign, and gallop back across the valley...
Lord Tennyson, looking for his imaginary land of the "mild-eyed, melancholy Lotos-eaters," might as easily have slung his hammock among the easygoing, soft-spoken people of Cambodia, smallest of French IndoChina's three Associated States (Viet Nam, Cambodia and Laos), a kingdom watered by great slow rivers and sheltered by towering mountains...
...starting time, the drivers dashed to the 57 sleek, low-slung racers. Some 175,000 craning fans, who brought tents and bedrolls for their 24-hour vigil, were on hand for the big show. For hour after hour, roaring wide-open on the straightaways, the cars spun around the 8.6-mile oval course, stopping occasionally for fuel or tire changes. Nighttime mist hampered visibility, but the asphalt road, lightly sanded to prevent slipping in wet weather, never became treacherous...