Word: backseaters
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...backseat of president John F. Kennedy's limousine was a leather pit of horror, flecked with bits of flesh and a crust of drying blood that a grim young Secret Service agent was trying to wipe up with a sponge. He seemed hesitant, cowed by the task. On the front seat of the Lincoln lay the crushed red roses that Jackie Kennedy had been carrying. It was a certain and brutal end to a great national drama, but none of the people milling around on the driveway of Parkland Hospital that day wanted to allow the curtain to fall...
...guzzler? Doesn't he give a damn about the planet?" When my father caved in and bought a Honda Civic, he displayed the zeal of the convert and--drunk on virtue and high mileage--indignantly began to point out land yachts everywhere. My brother and I, jammed into the backseat, felt differently. We missed the Town & Country...
...friends decided to do whatever they wanted—like putting up King Lear in the backseat of a Lincoln and Mayakovsky in a supermarket...
...rival. When Nixon sent Rumsfeld to run the Cost of Living Council, Rumsfeld again brought Cheney along as his deputy. And when Ford took over for Nixon, appointing Rumsfeld chief of staff, Cheney was at Rumsfeld's side as No. 2; his Secret Service code name was, appropriately, "Backseat." Finally, in November 1975, after Rumsfeld was named Ford's Defense Secretary, Dick Cheney became the youngest White House chief of staff in history...
...mechanical controls frees up the space where an engine would normally reside; in the Hy-wire prototype you can see straight through the front of the car. Without a steering column, designers can place the controls anywhere in the car for maximum comfort and safety--even in the backseat...