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Privilege & Presence. South Viet Nam, by contrast, which remains within the French Union, is demoralized and divided. Bao Dai, the porcine Chief of State, lives in France with his mistresses, his Ferrari and his Jaguar XK 120. Bao Dai's Premier in Saigon is Ngo Dinh Diem, 53, a high-minded patriot but an ineffective leader, who is more or less locked up inside his palace by Vietnamese generals who want to grab power for themselves. In many of the villages that the Viet Minh infiltrators do not control,* local sects and gangsters rule with private armies...
...m.p.h. in less than 20 seconds. It proved so popular that on opening day more than 1,500 orders were placed for the Versailles (de luxe) model alone. Simca showed off its new convertible. Other major attractions: a custom-built racing Jaguar with the famed 160-h.p. XK-120 engine; an $8,000 road-racing Porsche with a 70-h.p. engine and top speed of about 115 m.p.h.; a $10,000 Fiat designed by Pinin Farina with a top speed of around 120 m.p.h...
...gets $200,000 for each picture he makes. He lives with his fourth wife, Actress Lauren Bacall (known as "Baby") and their two children in a $160,000 whitewashed brick mansion in Los Angeles' exclusive Holmby Hills, keeps two Jaguar automobiles (a Mark VII for Baby, an XK 120 for himself), three blooded boxer dogs, and a $55,000 ocean-going racing yacht. Mike Romanoff, the famed phony prince, wise man and restaurateur who is a sometime arbiter of Hollywood society, allows him to appear for meals without a necktie. He is president and principal stockholder of a motion...
...Watkins Glen, N.Y., Garage Owner Walter E. Hangsen of Westfield, N.J. took his 160 h.p. Jaguar XK-120 sports car around 22 laps of wicked curves to win the annual road race. Average speed: 76.1 m.p.h...
...with the ?1,100 look," and Lyons was on his way. He sold 2,000 the first year, doubled his sales by 1935 despite Depression. World War II diverted him to making motorbikes and armored sidecars, but all during the war he worked on the XK-120 design. Because Hitler had given the initials SS an evil ring, he changed his car's (and his company's) name to Jaguar...