The Mercedes-Benz 190 SL
Fine workmanship and splendid roadability are the top features of this sports rig, says Uncle Tom.
By Tom McCahill
THE NAME Mercedes-Benz, like Tiffany, Morgan & Company and Diamond Jim Brady is known from pole-to-pole and over the border and into Finland. Mercedes-Benz has had only one rival through the years for the title of Prestige Car Of The World—and that is Rolls-Royce. Actually, from a quality standpoint and longevity, Rolls gets the nod, but from a performance and accomplishment standpoint no one can touch Mercedes.
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IT’S NEW!
ARMY “MULE,” new four-cylinder cousin of famous Jeep, is first military vehicle to carry load greater than its own weight. It can climb 72 per cent slope on rough terrain.
FRENCH STYLE taxi hailer will help do away with noise in Paris. City fathers are trying to quell unnecessary bedlam.
GOGGOMOBIL is tiny new four-seat, rear-engined German rig which gets claimed 61.4 miles to gallon, 60 mph top speed.
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Nothing you want to watch on TV? Watch something better.
There’s always something great on the RCA VideoDisc System.
Now when there’s nothing good to watch on TV, it’s easy to see something great. Like your favorite movie, your child’s favorite show, a tennis lesson, or a great concert. The fact is, the great catalog of RCA VideoDiscs contains more than 130 great movies, classics, concerts or shows. And there are lots more on the way.
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THEY KEPT THEIR G-eyes OPEN
While on duty with the Armed Forces, these Gl’s picked up ideas that meant money and careers for them in later years.
By Lester David
DID you ever think of the Army as a source for million-dollar ideas? And not for the mammoth corporations, either, but for the average working Joe in uniform? Well, it’s incredibly, and very happily, a fact.
It was a cold, dismal mid-morning at Wright Field in Ohio. Lieutenant Lloyd Rudd straightened up from his laboratory workbench in the engineering division, stretched and called: “Hey, Sarge, how’s about a cup of hot Java?”
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Firefighting Helicopters
Guardians of our national forest reserves now have a versatile weapon to pit against nature’s ancient and devastating enemy—fire.
BY DAVID P. GODWIN, Asst. Chief, Div. of Fire Control, U.S. Forest Service, as told to James N. Miller
THE newest and most promising tool tor the protection of our national forests is the firefighting helicopter. Its practicability has already been proven in tests conducted by Army and Forest Service officials.
The greatest value of the rotary wing aircraft lies in its ability to hover and land almost anywhere. Visibility is not a serious problem for the craft literally can feel its way through darkness or cloudy flying weather by circling around trees, mountains and other obstacles. In these respects it is superior to the airplane which has been used by the Forest Service for some 25 years.
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Africa is 60 Miles from Hollywood (in the movies)
by JAMES BOWLES
If you think the title of this article is rather far-fetched, you’re doing an injustice to Hollywood’s cleverest location managers, whose special brand of geography, not taught in the public schools, crowds Alaska, Ireland, Honolulu and Holland within the bounds of the state of California. FRANCE is 20 miles from the South Seas, the Sahara Desert adjoins Holtville, California, and the dykes of Holland leak into Long Beach.
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