Word: american
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...have sturdier thunks, but lighter models can do well if aided by a few gimmicks. Special bracing inside the. door can improve the thunk, but technicians do not know just how or why. "There's a lot of black magic in this thing," says John Adamson, an American Motors' vice president...
...achieve? At G.M., says Product Engineer Jim Leslie, the goal is "ker-chuck-that's what we want, ker-chuck." Chrysler, says Executive Body Engineer Jim Shank, aims for "the kind of sound you get when you drop a ripe pumpkin in the mud.v The ideal sound for American Motors, says Adamson, is "a clump-not a clink, clatter or clunk, but a clump." Of course, he concedes, "we will never reach the ultimate sound." Undeterred, scientists continue to chase across farm fields by dark of night, stethoscopes in hand, in pursuit of the elusive, perfect thunk...
...course, there have been some changes in prices. G.M.'s are up an average of $125 a car, Ford's $108, Chrysler's $107, American Motors' $81 (though the Hornet, at $1,994, is pointedly priced $1 below Ford's competing Maverick). Automen justify the increases by citing higher production costs. G.M. figures that payroll costs have risen 6% in the past year and will go up another 6% this month under terms of the company's labor contract; steel is up 6%, copper and lead 24%, zinc...
...fact, Chaucer ranks second to Shakespeare among the victims of bowdlerizing. The company is distinguished: Dryden, Pope, St. Augustine, Benjamin Franklin ("the leading native victim" of American bowdlerism), and, of course, Donne. "An easy test of what kind of college a student goes to," Perrin proposes, "is to quote the single line 'License my roving hands and let them go,' and see if his eyes light...
Club president Dave Zucconi, a 35-year old Brown graduate. anchors a fast, elusive backfield which includes All-American fullback Bill Mullin. and Mike Diffily. another All-American, leads a rugged scrum. The Bruins trounced Newport. 28-0, last week, and the Brown "B" squad lost narrowly to the first Tufts fifteen...