Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Armed with sturdy inner tubes, floppy hats, buoyant coolers full of iced beer cans, and an extra car to leave downstream for the trip back, enthusiasts simply stake out a docile stretch of river, plop themselves into the tube's cool well, and float downstream. When the afternoon is over, the tuber is sun-kissed but cool, refreshed but relaxed, with nary an aching muscle. "Tubing," says one insider, "is not tiring." Without once passing beyond the perimeter of his patched piece of commercial refuse, he has communed with nature far more intimately than the man who has played...
Oldsmobile introduced its racy, 375-h.p. Toronado, first U.S. car with front-wheel drive since the Cord phased out in 1937. Some foreign automakers, notably France's Citroën, also market front-wheel cars. According to Olds engineers, front-wheel drive offers more traction and stability than conventional rear drive; it also eliminates the hump on the floor (because the transmission and differential are up front). Other engineers contend that front-wheel cars tend to oversteer, and that the added weight forward causes greater wear on brakes. The Toronado, a two-door, six-passenger hardtop that is four...
Latching the Door. Donner announced a $1 million G.M. grant to M.I.T. for a four-year study of traffic safety. Chrysler Vice President Harry Chesebrough disclosed that his company's 1966 models will have a new door latch that will substantially reduce the chances of car doors opening in an accident; he also called for the creation of a federal automobile center to coordinate safety programs. All of the executives promised that their 1966 models would have many of the safety devices that the Government has begun to require on its own cars...
...their acrimony, the hearings may well serve the worthwhile purpose of arousing concern on the part of companies, consumers and Government agencies. Since the Senate subcommittee began investigating in March, New York state has named a board to build a prototype safety-car, Maryland has tightened its standards for tires, and other states have begun to consider stricter safety rules. A recent nation-wide poll shows that traffic safety is now one of the half-dozen problems Americans worry about most...
...pupil become a student? Find the errors in these sentences: "Dave Beck pleaded innocent today to a charge of grand larceny." "At least twelve hawks are making their homes atop city skyscrapers and zooming down to snatch pigeons." "Mr. Smith was changing a flat tire when a second car collided with his automobile." "The bulk of Mr. Getty's fortune is self-made...