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...future, the U.S. car will probably not grow any longer, nor will it get much lower. But it will be wider and roomier, with better visibility and more safety features. It will also undoubtedly become more functional. The station wagon first started out as a farm carryall, then became a tricked-up luxury for the country-club set. But today, by wedding the sedan to the wagon, Detroit's stylists have given it a new function; they have turned out a handsome auto that can be used either to haul tomatoes to market or top hats to the opera...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Cellini of Chrome | 11/4/1957 | See Source »

from $1,875 for the small Rambler (up $80) to $2,862 for the new Ambassador station wagon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The Little Two | 10/21/1957 | See Source »

...minutes later a crisp, careful military movement put the nine Negro children safely into Central High School. A jeep rolled through the barricade at 16th Street and Park Avenue, followed by an Army station wagon and another jeep. The Negroes piled out of the station wagon. Three platoons came on the double across the school grounds, deployed in strategic positions. Another platoon lined up on either side of the Negroes, escorted them inside the building. There was dead silence around Central High School...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Quick, Hard & Decisive | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

...mainland tip. A special warden was assigned to foil escape attempts-at a salary of $86 a month. Jorge took care of that. One night last March the special warden unlocked the prison gates and discreetly disappeared; Jorge and friends got into a waiting yellow Ford station wagon, drove into Chile...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CHILE: Let Jorge Do It | 10/7/1957 | See Source »

From seacoast to mountain, New Jersey's 21 counties reverberated with the noise of political engines last week as the state's 1957 gubernatorial campaign went into high gear. Touring for the Democrats (on occasion in a borrowed green station wagon with Pennsylvania tags): handsome, hard-working Governor Robert Baumle Meyner, 49, consistently favored for a second term despite New Jersey's heavy Republican registration. Touring for the G.O.P. (in a red, white and blue milk truck): hornrimmed, wealthy State Senator Malcolm Stevenson Forbes. 38, who bucked the Republican organization to win the primary, is working even...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NEW JERSEY: Closing the Gap | 9/30/1957 | See Source »

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