Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...projection of Expo 67-are already beginning to find their way into Hollywood productions. The Boston Strangler is being shot with multiple images. One scene shows at the left an elderly woman watching TV; at bottom center, a detective interviews a witness; on the right, the strangler drives his car slowly through the streets to the elderly woman's house. Mary Ellen Bute's adaptation of Thornton Wilder's The Skin of Our Teeth will employ a wide screen, occasionally fragmented into a honeycomb of separate actions...
...hopes to have a prototype built next year, figures that because the car is designed to use existing auto components, it could be mass-produced at a cost of $1,600. HUD ultimately envisions an urban transportation concept under which commuters would pay a fee to join a vast minicar pool, get to and from work in cars kept at central lots, which during the working day would supply idle cars to other pool members...
...safety commission from New York State showed off a design for a four-passenger Safety Sedan, developed under a $385,000 contract by Fairchild Killer Corp.'s Republic Aviation Division. Billed as a car to be developed with "an aeronautical approach," the sedan could, according to the safety commission, be mass-produced as cheaply as Detroit's lower-priced models, be far ahead in safety. Though New York State has no plans to build it, the design has such features as four-wheel drive for maximum traction and resistance to skidding, an all-window defrosting system, four roll...
...Madison, Wis., Inventor Bruce B. Mohs, 35, has built over two years at a cost of some $15,000 in parts alone a prototype of a plastic-covered, steel-bodied car called the Ostentatienne Opera Sedan. It boasts a 270° windshield visibility, hidden rails in the sides to protect its four passengers (who enter through a single swing-up rear door), cantilevered roof beams that act as skid rails in case of a rollover, and seats that swing in a collision, placing body weight against the seat instead of a narrow seat belt. Mohs, who claims that the sedan...
...pioneer in auto installment financing and longtime (1939-60) president of Commercial Investment Trust, nation's largest sales-finance company. More than anyone else, Dietz made "Buy Now, Pay Later" a U.S. byword-starting in 1919 when he set up the auto sales division of C.I.T. to finance car sales, a development that put a rich man's luxury into a workingman's budget and brought C.I.T. to a loan volume of $4.6 billion annually by his retirement...