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...culture of quickness has inspired smaller operators to accelerate their pace as well. In Los Angeles, for example, time-conscious consumers can flip through the telephone book to find Speedy Attorney Service, Fast Glass & Screens, Rapid Brake Service, Instant Wedding Chapel and Swift Secretarial Service. The dry-cleaning listings of any phone directory look like a thesaurus entry for the word fast, including the omnipresent 1-Hour Martinizing shops and archrivals with such names as Prompt Cleaners, Presto Cleaners and One-Hour Lusterizing...
Less than a month after Hyundai Motor America introduced the $4,995 subcompact Excel, the first South Korean-made car to enter the U.S. market, company officials have discovered a problem that could result in complete brake failure. During routine predelivery checks, Hyundai inspectors found that a critical pin was improperly installed in the braking system of three cars. Though no accidents have been reported, the company took no chances. Moving fast, Hyundai executives last week voluntarily recalled all the 4,400 Excels sold in the U.S. Owners were promised free inspections and repairs by Hyundai dealers...
...becoming the deluxe class of fairway transport, has just introduced the fanciest, priciest cart ever to cruise past a clubhouse. Called the Sun Classic, this "golf car," as Yamaha refers to it, sells for $4,230 and comes with tinted windshield, headlights with high beams, self-canceling turn signals, brake and tail lights, adjustable seats and chrome wheels with < whitewall tires. Such options as plush carpeting and AM-FM radio can add $280 more to the sticker price...
...Halley's surface in 1836, another German astronomer, Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel, conceived a more plausible concept, the fountain theory. Bessel proposed that a comet was a loose clump of particles. He suggested the flares were fountains of these motes erupting from its nucleus and that they acted as a brake. Bessel's work was largely ignored at the time, but it turned out to be at least partially correct...
...send this stuff to Mikey; but den all he wood do is tear it up, swear, and nobody get any ha, ha's. I vood of send him the playing record "This is My Shining Hour," too; but I don't trust the post mail. I think they would brake the record. It be nice for Mike to play this record vile he reads the newspaper stuff...