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LIGHTWEIGHT TRAIN, which all railroads are talking about, will be ordered by the Pennsylvania. Costing about $1,000,000, it will be a Talgo-type express (TIME, April 18, 1949) made up of low-slung, tubular cars holding 600 passengers...
...give a damn until he wants to give a damn," sighed Owner Saylor, "and he doesn't give one very often." But in the view of Judge Albert Van Court, Jock's massive shoulders, his wrinkled face with its powerful undershot jaw, and the low-slung carriage seemed little short of perfection. Not since 1913 had a bulldog won that final award...
...sports models; this year they looked as if they might be next year's production models. Pontiac, for instance, featured the Strato-Star, a six-passenger hardtop; Oldsmobile showed off its Delta, a four-passenger hardtop. Flashiest of the fleet was the LaSalle II sports roadster, a low-slung (42.8-in.-high) model with a reinforced glass-fiber body and an experimental 150-h.p., V-6 engine that G.M. engineers hope will enable them to cut down on engine space in the future...
...slung, lightweight passenger train will be ordered soon, if the committee of Eastern railroad presidents formed to investigate its possibilities (TIME, July 12) does not come up with a mass order for such a train. Young added that General Motors will have a new train "on the rails by July, Pullman shortly thereafter, and A.C.F. soon after that...
...Unionist named Lahbib Ben Mohammed, who has himself served time in French prisons for his nationalism, led one team into the hills near Jafna, sent word ahead by intermediaries, and sat down on a rocky slope to wait. At the appointed time, a slim, khaki-clad young man, binoculars slung around his neck, pistol bolstered in his belt, suddenly appeared before him. In a few minutes a bargain was struck, and out of hiding rose 22 more outlaws. They surrendered 15 rifles, 1,200 rifle cartridges, 5 revolvers with 200 rounds, and got thumb-printed amnesties in exchange...