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...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...
...further with a four-passenger DB 6 that has a full back seat and sells for $15,400. For the man who wants to take his wife and kids to the beach in a hurry-say at 150 m.p.h.-Aston-Martin has just the answer: the $22,500 Shooting Brake, certainly the snazziest station wagon ever built...
Even these devices are just a prelude. The auto companies are experimenting with a "drivometer"-a device attached to the brake, accelerator and steering apparatus that would warn a driver when he is performing sloppily. Ford is well along with a "wrist steer"-two small wheels at the driver's side that would replace the dangerous steering shaft. Engineers at G.M. are tinkering with "unicontrol," a sort of auto pilot that would pick up directional signals from the road...
Ready Blood. On the big day itself, the practical Dutch were taking no chances. For the first time in its 66 years of service, the coach had a special brake, and the eight liveried footmen with it were really detectives in bulletproof vests. Some 8,000 policemen and soldiers lined the official route from the Palace on the Dam to the Town Hall, to the ancient Dutch Reformed Westerkerk, and back to the palace. And a hospital was standing by with a special supply of 250 pints of blood, carefully matched to the blood types of every royal guest...
...many investors would rather see Lyndon Johnson raise taxes than rely on Federal Reserve Chairman William McChesney Martin Jr. to make the nation's money still tighter. Sums up Walter C. Gorey, head of his own San Francisco brokerage firm: "When Mr. Martin puts his foot on the brake, he scares hell out of the big investors and the little old ladies and orphans...