Word: braking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Tender Foot. Many a German automobile has a name-Mausi, Susi, Lotte and Hannchen are among the most popular-and car owners are usually solicitous to a fault with their mobile mistresses. "When I brake, I do it carefully, tenderly, not to hurt it," says Writer Dietrich Mummendey, 36, "A car has to be treated carefully, just like a woman...
...didn't stay there long." Said Dan Gurney in disgust: "It seems like 33 of what are supposed to be the best drivers in the world ought to be able to drive down a little straightaway piece of road without running into each other. Everybody has a brake and an accelerator. If one of these drivers had a brain too, this wouldn't have happened...
...Thunderbird '64s included 3,058 on which a hard slam of the doors tripped loose the parking brake...
...Ford and Mercury '66s developed rear-brake-line vibrations to the point that 12,800 cars were corrected to avoid brake failure...
...well known is that Brady was one of the founding fathers of expense-account entertaining. He shrewdly courted publicity because he felt that it was an asset in his job as a railroad-equipment salesman; most of his opulent blowouts were aimed at getting orders for brake rigging, patent couplings and switch stands...