Word: cars
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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TIME, Dec. 3, published a picture of the new Ford hardtop convertible. I would like to point out that in the middle '30s a French automobile manufacturer, Peugeot, put out a similar car, the "Peugeot...
...tale-of being kidnaped, doped, raped and tossed into the California desert night-was as hard to believe as if it had all happened to her before cameras for a Grade B thriller. A Mexican and a Negro, youthful, hopped-up and zoot-suited, had abducted her in a car, claimed blonde Marie, after announcing: "We want your money, your rings and your body!" Some 150 miles away and 24 hours later, a truck driver spotted The Body wandering dazed along a highway, her hair sand-matted, some fingernails broken, face cut and bruised, two caps missing from her front...
Those who are not well organized emotionally, said Dr. Bowes, "will treat their hi-fi set as the emotionally immature treat a car-as an expression of aggression, as a power symbol." To many it has a sexual connotation: addicts may be seeking a "sterile reproduction without biological bother," and in extreme cases, a record collection becomes a "symbolic harem." Significantly, says Psychiatrist Bowes (married, no children), an addict's wife almost always demands that the volume be turned down: "Perhaps in the male's interest in hi-fi she senses a rival, as shrill and discordant...
Main features to break the monotony are glass corridors and a three-story, sheet-glass grand entrance for protocol occasions. The roof will be reinforced for helicopter landing; the basement will house an 800-car garage. Inside, the building freezes the State Department's pyramidal hierarchy in concrete, with the Secretary's office, surrounded by his immediate aides on the seventh floor, lesser departments pushed lower and lower toward the first. Windows are rationed on prestige basis. To pump around the lifeblood of memorandums there are miles of pneumatic tubing...
...DRIVE-IT" SYSTEM is being started by Greyhound Corp. in New York, Chicago, Miami, Detroit, Cleveland. By year's end it plans fleet of 4,000 to 5,000 cars in 50-city net, will permit driver to return car without extra charge to any city with Greyhound's rental service...