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...Mabel Austin Las Vegas...
...produce the Silver Volt, scheduled for production next year at a cost to buyers of $16,000 each. The car runs on fast-charge, lead-acid batteries, but has a small rotary gasoline engine to boost power for passing and to rescue drivers from battery failure. Jet Industries of Austin, Texas, takes Ford, Chrysler and Fuji cars and trucks from the factory, installs lead-acid batteries and resells the vehicles to fleet owners for $10,000 to $14,000 each...
Like Doob, Austin cherishes the high standards she acquired while at Radcliffe, saying, "You want the best from then on." Coming to Radcliffe from a public high school in Des Moines, Iowa, and "not knowing enough to be scared" by the academic competition, Austin calls her Radcliffe experience very positive. A member of Radcliffe's undefeated 1929 polo team (no other women's college in New England fielded a team), Austin doubts that the Radcliffe graduates of 1980 are much different than those of half a century ago. There has always been a strong sense of feminist independence, she says...
...Austin says she's all for co-residency at Harvard, saying that Radcliffe's isolation made it difficult for women and men to meet socially. "I think the informality is more like the way people actually live," she says. but many Radcliffe alums continue to maintain that the school should retain its heritage and a symbolic independence from Harvard, an independence which they say gives women an important, unifying identity...
...wish my life away." After attending her 45th reunion, Doob vowed that she would never attend another: "All my friends were so old. I don't look in the mirror much, and I work around so many young people that I, too, usually feel very young." But Austin says she tries not to live in the past: "You almost feel like a different person this many years later. I try to live in the present." And, as she writes in the Class of 1930 reunion book...