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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hours he was a hero. Attendants at Newport's Pacific Communities Hospital felt that he might well have saved Meuler's life. But State Police Sergeant William Colbert was not so sure. Though Thomson insisted that the demonstrator's front wheels had locked, the cops could find no skid marks at the highway's edge. Next day Thomson changed his story, said that he had gone to sleep at the wheel. "Dick," said the sergeant, "why don't you get it all off your chest?" Dick calmly accommodated him. He signed a five-page confession...
Europe's racing fans know Ascari's exploits as well as the U.S. does those of Babe Ruth. The man himself is harder to know. A sinewy, self-possessed man with a burning spirit and wrists of steel, he first sat behind a wheel at the age of five, perched on the knee of his racing-driver father, Antonio Ascari. Growing up, he raced anything he could get his hands on-spitting little motorbikes, stock Fiat sedans, then sporty, 150-m.p.h. Maseratis. Finally, in 1947, Ascari won his first big-time race at Modena, and other drivers have...
...greatest triumphs and narrowest squeaks. Until last week's Monza, Ascari's closest brush with death was 1949's Netherlands Grand Prix. Ascari was leading by three laps. "I was doing 120 m.p.h. on the straightaway," he recalls, "when all of a sudden the left rear wheel flew off and rolled into a meadow." Somehow, Ascari managed to keep his Ferrari balanced on three wheels, gradually let it slow down. Then the car rolled over gently, and Ascari pushed back his goggles and walked away...
...bigger Buicks and Oldsmobiles and cheaper Cadillacs. Most G.M. cars will have wider vision with one-piece "wraparound" windshields. Cadillac, which is boosting its horsepower from 210 to 225, will offer sports models with some of the features of G.M.'s futuristic, experimental models displayed this year (wire wheels, cutaway fenders exposing the whole wheel). The industry rumor is that Buick is taking the boldest step of all by adding to its three existing lines a sports model, with 170-h.p. engine and a light metal frame and body, to be priced somewhere between the Special and Super models...
...major body change is a new front quarter panel which gives a higher fender line, a longer-looking silhouette. Mercury's rear panel is being lengthened to give a similar look of greater length. The Lincoln is little changed, but its easy-steering type of front-wheel suspension is being put into both the Mercury and Ford...