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...Kart and Minnie Bike. The best in each class compete tor two championship trophies: Best Rod and Best Custom. In addition, spectators may vote for "the most popular car of the show"; the car with the most votes in all shows on the circuit wins a 1964 500-XL Ford...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Hobbies: The Customizers | 4/10/1964 | See Source »

...Buick or Chevrolet. Now, in order to choose from a bewildering selection of car names, he may need The World Almanac, a foreign-language guide, a vest-pocket bestiary, and perhaps a celestial-navigation chart. Already on the market are such prestigious monikers as Ford's Galaxie 500 XL (the XL means nothing at all), Chevrolet's Impala or Corvair Monza Spyder (apparently spelled with a y to avoid the insect image, despite Chevy disclaimers), Oldsmobile's F85 and Starfire (odes to the jet age). And there are more to come...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Customs: F.O.B. Nameville | 9/13/1963 | See Source »

...Plasti-Craft's streamlined XL-525, a 14-ft. Fiberglas-reinforced outboard runabout. Made of Owens-Corning Fiberglas and plastic, the hull needs no paint or calking (price: about $575). Other Fiberglas boats on display: Lunn Laminates' 18-ft. sloop, Challenger, Ray Greene & Co.'s 16-ft. sloop, Rebel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MODERN LIVING: Dry-Land Cruise | 1/19/1953 | See Source »

...year-old Major General Yu Jae Hung, commander of the R.O.K. II Corps, became convinced that Communist counterattacks which had chopped up his overextended divisions had been delivered by Chinese troops. From interrogation of a handful of Chinese prisoners, Yu concluded that 40,000 men of the Chinese Communist XL Army Corps had crossed from Manchuria into North Korea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: War: Late Entry | 11/6/1950 | See Source »

...small fry" but "large-sized" individuals whom the Worker was to treat with respect. Politburo instructions were issued on onionskin documents "so secret that we were instructed not to burn them, but to tear them in small pieces and destroy them through the toilet." In these documents, "L or XL in Far Eastern affairs referred to Mr. Lattimore. I was so advised by Jack Stachel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Of Cells & Onionskins | 5/1/1950 | See Source »

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