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...first car was an open-tonneau air-cooled 1903 Franklin with a side crank. And over the years he tooled around for more than 1,500,000 miles as a traveling salesman on his way to a business fortune before going into politics. But now, what with the traffic and cloverleafs and all, says New Jersey's former Republican Senator Albert W. Hawkes, 86, "this driving is getting to be an engineering feat." The Senator is "perfectly able physically" to perform the feat, he says, but just a little tired of it. Chauffeured over to Trenton's Department...
...barred his way. Voroshilov made a second attempt to join his old comrades through a side door of the Mausoleum and was ejected by a plainclothesman. He then stood pathetically beside a white-smocked woman selling ice cream and watched somberly as Defense Minister Rodion Malinovsky stood in the tonneau of an open Zil auto and took the roaring salute of the assembled soldiers. Old Comrad Voroshilov must have reflected how often he had played the very same role, but mounted on a white charger instead of riding...
...lover, Ford will bring out, in addition to its regular four-seater Thunderbird, a Thunderbird sports roadster. Equipped with wire wheels and a dashboard "assist bar" for nervous passengers to hang on to, the new Thunderbird can be converted into a pseudo two-seater by slipping a fiber-glass tonneau cover over the back seat. The nation's bestselling compact, the Falcon, adds a dummy air scoop on the hood that gives the car a racier silhouette...
...horn-blowing neurotics with tendencies toward drinking, cat-kicking and wife-beating, there were few who did not believe that the traffic evil would soon be corrected. This enormous delusion has been a part of U.S. folklore since the day of the linen duster, driving goggles and the high tonneau...