Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...London has taken the lead from us. There's always excitement in the air. In New York there's only air pollution." But to 33-year-old Bachelor Stevenson, who has already dabbled in Wall Street (Lazard Freres), educational films, Caribbean real estate, and an unsuccessful antique-car rental service, Cheetah is "an investment that I know will be a success." To reporters he elaborated: "I'm not a nightclub man, and the music drives me out of my mind, but I have inordinately good taste." Did he feel he was cashing in on his father...
...contrasting styles, curious continuities emerge. Kinetic art, one of the latest movements, represented by Sculptors Jean Tinguely and Pol Bury, is foreshadowed by Gino Severini's The Armored Train (opposite page), an example of World War I futurism that abstracts the warring motion of an ironclad railway car into shock waves, lacking only POW! ZIP! BAM! in cartoon balloons to become pop art. And Severini died just this year at the age of 83. Optical art is another trend of the '60s. Yet a flat pattern of particolored isosceles triangles called Iridescent Interpenetration No. 3 by another futurist...
...beleaguered auto industry last week came under stress from a new quarter-with serious implications for its nationwide dealer-franchise setup. In a unanimous decision, the Supreme Court ruled that General Motors and three Chevrolet dealers' associations, in fighting discount-house car sales in the Los Angeles area in 1960-61, had violated the Sherman Antitrust Act in "a classic conspiracy in restraint of trade...
More Ammunition. On the congressional front, the safety hubbub continued. Detroit scrapped its proposal that car safety standards could best be set by the automakers themselves through a voluntary-action program. That plan had pleased no one-least of all President Johnson, who two weeks ago blasted Detroit for its "picayunish" objections to the Administration's highway-safety bill...
...home in Italy, where three out of every four cars on the road are Fiats, the company in 1965 produced 1,013,588 vehicles-its first million-unit year -and rang up sales of $1.5 billion. Production this year will rise 12-15%, to about 1,150,000 vehicles. Fiat also produces most of what it takes to put a car together and make it work, from ingots to machine tools to oil. Under the slogan "Fiat Land Sea Air," the company also makes railway and marine equipment, jet aircraft and engines...