Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Almost a Relief. In anticipation of the bill, in fact, the industry has already begun to put many safety features into its cars as standard equipment. All 1967 models will have steering columns that telescope forward on impact, dual braking systems to stop a car if a single set fails and anchorages for front-seat shoulder harnesses. Other improvements will come along later, based largely on the 26 safety features that manufacturers must build into cars that they sell to the Government. Because it takes Detroit a year or more to alter designs, some changes will not show up until...
...support. Even Nader was not entirely dissatisfied. Though he estimated that it will be 1973 before the bill's real impact will be felt, he allowed that the bill "enables us to begin." The bill has no criminal penalties but stipulates civil penalties of $1,000 for every car sold that is not suitably equipped, up to a maximum of $400,000. Used cars, trucks and buses, exempted by the Senate, are included in its provisions...
Automatic Forfeit. Congress also heeded Detroit's pleas that it takes a human behind the wheel to turn a car into a misguided missile. A highway-safety bill, approved 317 to 3 by the House, offers $270 million over three years-$140 million less than a Senate version-as an incentive to states to tighten safety codes and to improve driver training, testing and inspection of vehicles and highway design. The House also decreed that states that do not set up an approved road-safety program by Jan. 1, 1968 will forfeit 10% of the federal aid that they...
Died. Sir Sidney Oakes, 39, son of multimillionaire Sir Harry Oakes (victim of a famed, unsolved murder in 1943), a Nassau businessman and amateur sports car driver; of injuries when his Sunbeam Alpine failed to make a curve at high speed; in Nassau...
...wish to." Con men and con women bilk him of a fortune and enclose his spirit brick by brick behind a wall of paranoia. A male model and his wife, whom he hires to smooth his way in New York, take off with his new car and a year's advance pay. Norman buys a mountainside in New Mexico, only to have a soulful Indian talk him into paying dearly for another thousand acres and a herd of Angora goats for the production of "Capricorn semisoft cheese," which goes sour before it can be sold. He is finally carted...