Word: backseaters
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...parents have known it all along. Jimmy's mother used to be a terrible backseat driver until, in a fit of filial exasperation, he took her around a corner flat-out just to show that everything was under control. She has since learned to relax and wave happily at friends as he tools along at 90 m.p.h. or so-though she still refuses to watch him compete...
Knocked Heads. In his efforts to reshape Tunisia as a modern nation, Bourguiba has had to knock heads together. Inevitably, some army officers resent the backseat role he gives the military. And Moslem religious leaders are angered by his attempt to abolish the day-long fasts of the month of Ramadan, and by his emancipation of women...
...Should a Girl Scout trade her merit badge for a wedding ring, for a fraternity pin, or just for the hell of it? Two of the girls (Dolores Hart, Paula Prentiss) play it safe, and though they miss their fun they get their men. The third (Yvette Mimieux) plays "backseat bingo" and in the last reel finds herself all smashed up by an automobile. Not very subtle, but it squares the censor...
...Backseat drivers are much the same (cave wife being dragged by caveman: "Avoid loose stones, and watch out for the Brontosaurus round the corner...
...Phantom-Corsair, built in 1937 by Rust (57 Varieties) Heinz at a cost of $35,000 and now owned by TV Comedian Herb Shriner. A cocoonlike vehicle with a Cord engine that can do up to 135 m.p.h., it has a backseat bar, operated by pushbuttons...