Word: carred
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...International Automobile Show, it is called, but it might also be known as the International Smog Machine Show. It is well known, of course, that the gasoline-powered car is the major polluter of U.S. air-a problem for which neither Washington nor Detroit has yet managed to find a solid solution. Short of reverting to the horse and buggy, the obvious answer is to develop a new propulsion system for automobiles that is as efficient as but less noxious than the internal-combustion engine. When the annual auto show opened in Manhattan last week, the Petersen Publishing Co. (Motor...
...smaller second motor-a plain steam turbine-will power the car's auxiliary systems and cut the time required to fire the boiler to 15 seconds or so. Although Lear's car has not been road tested (the auxiliary motor is not completed), the main power plant has been "run in," and Lear claims that it can generate up to 500 h.p. More important, since the fuel used to fire the boiler is burned rather than exploded (as it is in a gas engine) the car will leave practically no products of incomplete combustion behind to pollute...
Governmental agencies have expressed interest in Lear's project; California wants to try out a steam-powered bus and police car. Lear also plans to enter a steamer in the Indianapolis 500, perhaps next year, to help get his message across to Detroit. In fact, there are signs that Detroit has got the message already. Ford has signed an agreement with Massachusetts' Thermo Electron Corp. for joint development of a small steam engine, and General Motors has contracted with Oakland's Besler Developments, Inc. to install a steam motor in a Chevrolet for testing...
...rapid an expansion. In any case, craft labor unions, archaic local building codes and the industry's fragmented organization inhibit mass production and inflate construction costs. Big combines might ultimately even do for housing-the biggest investment most families make-what Henry Ford did for the car. In many sectors of the U.S. economy, today's wave of corporate combines raises legitimate fears that concentration may threaten competition. In real estate, there is still too little of either...
Even before Barnes became drama critic, his appetite for theatrical performances was notorious. "If you dimmed the lights in a car," says a fellow critic, "Clive would have tried to review it." Two years ago, after Howard Taubman succeeded Brooks Atkinson and Stanley Kauffmann succeeded Taubman, the New York Times turned to Clive Barnes. His first reviews ran on heedlessly, as Barnes reviewed the theater, the audience, the seats. But by the following season he was as relaxed as an actor in the second year of a hit comedy, still babbling, but in the manner of a relaxed and witty...