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Less than two minutes later, guard Bill Swinford picked off a Lion pass at midfield, and carrying the ball like a loaf of bread, sped to the Columbia 19. On the next play Bruce MacIntyre slammed through a gaping hole in the Lion defense and cut through to the goal line...

Author: By Alexander Finley, | Title: Eleven Tramples Lions in 38-22 Victory | 10/19/1959 | See Source »

...meet the new pressures, rebel leaders sat in Tunis early last week awaiting the arrival of M'Hammed Yazid, "Minister of Information" in the F.L.N. and its liaison officer at the U.N. Flying in from New York, Yazid suavely brushed off a horde of reporters and sped away in a black Mercedes to a week of discussion with rebel "Premier" Ferhat Abbas and his "Cabinet." Their talk revolved around two points: if they rejected De Gaulle's offer out of hand, they would certainly forfeit most of the international sympathy they had won for their cause...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Entr'acte | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

American Motors' President George Romney, whose hot-selling Ramblers sped the entry of the Big Three into the compact race and now hold a commanding lead, argues that the big companies will be in trouble from the moment they jump into the smaller-car field. But not Rambler. "We will make and sell more than 500,000 Rambler '60s." Studebaker-Packard also expects a lift for Lark, up about a third to 200,000 sales. "Of one thing I'm certain," says Romney, "the one who is not going to be hurt is the customer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The New Generation | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...disguised it with a German Porsche body shell. One of Cole's friends recalls the scene that day at the Chevy Engineering Center. "Ed jumped in the car as if his pants were on fire. The speed limit at the test center is 25 m.p.h., but Ed sped around at 80. We kept closing our eyes and praying. Then he pulled up, and he could barely talk. He said three words: 'This...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The New Generation | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

...apply his tank know-how to building an experimental rear-engine Cadillac. It was a weird monster, with the engine in the back seat and dual rear tires. But during the icy winter of 1945-46 while his neighbors' cars skidded around the driveways, Cole's sped off with sure-handed ease. That car proved to Cole "that the rear engine provides better steering and handling on slippery roads.'' But it also showed him that a rear engine for a big car posed enormous problems...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The New Generation | 10/5/1959 | See Source »

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