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Tactical Withdrawal. In Kansas City, Mo., arrested after leading eleven police cars on a 17-mile, 100-m.p.h. chase through the city and suburbs, Motorist Donald C. Mangus told the judge: "I thought the siren was an ambulance's and I was just trying to get out of the way," got a $325 fine and 60 days in jail...
Nearly every motorist would like a sports car-or something close to it-if it had the comfort, roominess and reasonable price of the traditional family auto. In Flint, Mich, this week, Buick's General Manager Ivan L. (for Lester) Wiles, 55, took the wraps off what he thinks should fit the bill. It is Buick's Century, a new line that comes close to being a sports car for the family...
...this purpose, Actor More invites on the spin a flashy young brunette (Kay Kendell) who. after a number of frantic breakdowns ("Better try a new flint!" hollers a passing motorist), begins some calculated conversation with Gregson's wife. "All Ambrose seems to think about are that silly old car and the other thing." The wife answers bleakly, "My husband only thinks...
...Butterflies. The serious U.S. amateur does not yield even to the U.S. driver in his passion for new models and new gimmicks. Foreign cameras with exotic names (Japan's Nikon, Germany's Plaubel Makina and Sweden's Hasselblad) attract him as Jaguars and Lancias attract the motorist ($10 million worth of foreign cameras was imported into the U.S. last year). He is particularly taken with such fairly new products as baby flashbulbs, easily portable strobe lights, and stereoscopic cameras. He pores over catalogues as a gourmet surveys a menu. How can he resist such dishes...
...careful driver who rates a fellow motorist as "nuts" for honking his horn as soon as the light changes to green is probably right, though medically inexact. Alan Canty, psychologist for Detroit's traffic court, spelled it out in more technical terms at a National Safety Council meeting in Chicago last week: "The fellow who blasts his horn to bully his way through traffic, the fellow who wants to race you in a traffic-light getaway, and the smart-aleck who defies traffic regulations are selfish . . . and egocentric individuals...