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Curves at 100. Through his intuition and endless inspection, Speed King Ferrari prevails as an individual against mass-production giants. His cars are high-strung, low-slung machines with the delicate balance of a watch and the stamina of a bull rhino. The 3.5-liter Ferrari that won the Mille Miglia is powered with a huge twelve-cylinder engine, the only V12 currently in production, which can push it smoothly along the straightaway at close to 190 m.p.h. The weight of engine and chassis is kept low in relation to the horsepower (about 6 Ibs. per h.p.). Thus the cars...
...with George Humphrey. Shooting well, the President bagged a wild turkey, regularly came close to the legal limit of twelve quail daily. For the news photographers Hunter Eisenhower was a somewhat unsatisfactory subject. After an initial protest ("That would be silly") he finally agreed to pose with his shotgun slung over his shoulder, but a photographer's request that he pose sighting his gun near Humphrey's mule-drawn hunting wagon met with scandalized refusal: "What? Right over the mules? Let's not be corny...
...record 24,000 buyers who packed Chicago for the two-week winter furniture market, the industry displayed thousands of items, from French provincial tables to $43.50 teakwood rocking stools and $350 sofas slung airily on rubber webbing instead of conventional frames. With a bold paintbrush and imaginative use of new and old materials, e.g., Fiberglas and foam rubber, grained woods and nubby fabrics, the industry had mass-produced a display of modern designs that for the first time outnumbered traditional all down the line. As the market closed, 88% of 50 manufacturers surveyed reported better sales (average increase: 42%) than...
...aboard his business car-almost always accompanied by his wife Lucile, a decorator and art connoisseur-since taking over. He had big, dramatic dreams for the New Haven that sometimes made his more conservative officers nervous. He proposed, for example, to replace the present mainline rolling stock with low-slung, highspeed, articulated Talgo trains (he has already ordered three), and to string a moving conveyor belt along the tracks between New York and Boston to carry less-than-carload freight. But for all his energy, ambition and ideas, McGinnis made his passengers feel like galley slaves...
...Soto Adventurer, a low-slung two-door hardtop which will develop 320 h.p. against the standard 255 h.p. Chrysler's other entry of the week: an experimental two-door station wagon, the Plainsman, featuring a rear "observation car" seat, facing backwards, so that its two passengers see not where the car is going, but where it has been...