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Several unusual bikes, including the high wheeler and a French racing tandem, a bicycle built for two, will be entered. Unlike most previous races, there are no favorites this year...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Annual Wellesley Bike Race Starts Sunday at 10 a.m., Prizes Offered | 5/6/1953 | See Source »

...World War II, began turning out a three-wheeled, 342 pound automobile on a motor scooter chassis. Only 9½ ft. long, 48 in. wide and 47 in. high, it can do 40 m.p.h., run 75 miles on a gallon of gas. The Kleinwagen has two seats in tandem, no space for baggage. Price: about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: GOODS & SERVICES: New Ideas, Mar. 9, 1953 | 3/9/1953 | See Source »

...Running tandem with the Bogart-Hepburn travelling tryst is some of the most spectacular scenery Africa possesses. Waterfalls, steaming jungles, and endless papyrus marshes are caught with such remarkable realism that when Bogie and Katic are attacked by a swarm of insects, everybody in the theatre started scratching. The jungle is definitely one of the actors in The African Queen, and thanks to the Technicolor camera and its own loathsome inhabitants, it does a very fine...

Author: By Donald Carswell, | Title: The African Queen | 3/24/1952 | See Source »

...Bell's HSL helicopter, a huge, tandem-rotored affair powered by a 2,400 h.p. engine and carrying a crew of four. The new whirlybird's job will be to protect U.S. convoys from enemy attack by hovering over the ocean, dunking a special sonar buoy into the water to listen for subs...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: New Planes | 2/4/1952 | See Source »

...then we can only turn for comfort to the shining lessons of the great stoic, "O tempora, O mores!" If the latter--remembering that this outrage occurs day after day and at reduced rates--we must join the great Orator in his righteous outburst of indignation and exclaim, "Quousque tandem, Catilina, abutere patientia nostra...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: This Stinks | 3/30/1951 | See Source »

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