Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...except for the entrance. Different-shaped handles, square for hot and round for cold, would permit the soapy-eyed bather to adjust water temperature without alternately scalding or freezing himself. To avoid slipping while balancing on one leg, a continuous wraparound safety bar is needed. "One can get a car washed automatically in five minutes, while it still takes us 15 minutes to wash ourselves by hand," Kira notes wryly, and predicts that sweeping technological changes are due in personal hygiene...
Another talked-about film was Un Homme et Une Femme, a modest story of a simple love affair between a young widow (Anouk Aimée) and a racing-car driver (Jean-Louis Trintignant). New Wave Director Claude Lelouch, 28, shot the picture in four weeks, at one point had himself strapped with his camera to the hood of a speeding car to get realistic footage of the races. The crusty critics even applauded during the showing, rated the film as an homme-dinger, a top contender for the festival's first prize, the Golden Palm...
...Louise live in a modern, white house in Detroit's executive suburb of Bloomfield Hills. (Their daughter is married to a Chevrolet dealer in Florida, and their two sons-both Harvard law graduates-are lawyers). Of course Roche has a Cadillac, but he often test-drives a different car home from the production lines. He wears his responsibility as comfortably as an old shoe. When he got word last June of his promotion to a job that paid him $557,083 in 1965, he celebrated with Fred Donner and ex-President John Gordon by going to the New York...
Another depressant to Detroit is that the price of cars, stable for years, has risen: new safety features on the '66s added $60 to $80 to the list price, the reimposition of excise taxes in March tacked on another $25 or so, and tight money has kicked up the carrying charges for an average car loan by $24 a year. Says Ford Division Chief Donald Frey: "The willingness of the consumer to go into hock has reached a plateau...
...significance of Detroit's own safety measures is that they were not taken until public attention was focused on the problem. Car designers has complained that safety would not sell while stiletto tail fins would. Only when the uproar over automobile fatalities reached a crescendo did the industry realize that style would no longer sell without safety...