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...show. It is the Spitfire, a racy two-seater sports car which is a little brother of the TR-4, last year's bestselling imported sports car in the U.S. Priced at $2,199 in the Eastern U.S., the Spitfire has roll-up windows, road-clinging independent four-wheel suspension, and speeds up to 92 m.p.h. on a 63-h.p. engine. If anything can accelerate Standard-Triumph's progress, the Spitfire ought...
Sharp Blades. The hazards would be great on the journey to the border; so Weidner signed up a fellow villager, Jürgen Wagner, 22, to take the wheel. Eight days before Christmas, the pair began the feverish preparations in Weidner's garage. First Weidner and Wagner attached a heavy snowplow to the front of the bus, not to plow snow, but to scoop away the heavy obstacles they knew awaited them at roadblocks ahead...
...lugs on each front wheel they bolted sharp blades of the toughest steel, affixed so that the whirling edges would chop barbed wire to bits. Then they wedged one-quarter-inch sections of steel plate inside the bus to stop bullets...
...capacity: 7,000). By U.S. standards, that may not be much money, but for the average Argentine worker, who makes less than $100 a month, throwing about $6 an evening at the casino is a real fling. Last week a textile executive looked up from the spinning roulette wheel and sighed: "We've had a terrible year. Workers want more money, everybody owes us bills. I'm only doing here what I have been doing all year-gambling and losing money...
...only to be forced to the pits when his grass green Lotus sprang an oil leak. Hill's victory (four firsts, two seconds, one fourth in nine races) marked the first time that a British driver has won the world championship behind the wheel of a British car-and Clark, winding up second in the final standings with his Lotus, made it Britain's year all around...