Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schedules were so fouled up and so many potential travelers had given up in disgust that he found himself the only passenger on an Air France 707 to London. After catching a rare flight to Le Bourget airport, his luck held and he managed to get the last Hertz car available. Then, like his colleagues fanning out from Paris to Lyon to Marseille, Gooding went out to get his first taste of tear gas and to learn that a press brassard on a coat sleeve would be an open invitation to a mauling from the police...
...like displaying Venus draped in sackcloth. Yet there was Ursula Andress, 32, the smoky Swiss beauty of The Tenth Victim and Dr. No, all swaddled in an ankle-length car duster. And that about describes her latest flick, Southern Star, currently shooting in the wilds of Senegal. Ursula spends most of the movie jouncing around in a 1912 Rochet-Schneider trying to spring her fiancé (George Segal) from the local hoosegow where he's been tossed by her dad as a suspected jewel thief. But voyeurs need not despair: hopefully, in Ursula's next film...
...system includes a small computer installed behind the glove compartment and sensing devices mounted inside each rear wheel. When one or both wheels stop rolling while the car is in motion, indicating a skid, the sensor flashes an instant message to the computer. Many drivers end in catastrophe after a skid because they freeze on the brake pedal instead of pumping it rapidly and repeatedly while steering their way out of the spin. The computer will do the proper pumping for them in the auto-linear system. With one impulse it takes control of the brakes away from the brake...
...installing a guard rail on the doors of more than half of next year's models. The rail, actually an 8-in. section of high-strength sheet metal, will be welded out of sight inside the door. In the event of an impact on the side of the car, the rail will give way gradually but with resilience enough to deflect the oncoming automobile and cut down the danger to the occupants of the struck car. Of course, if the oncoming vehicle is a skidding Thunderbird or Mark III, the occupants presumably need not worry. Before the crash occurs...
Chairman Harold S. Geneen describes his $2.8-billion International Telephone & Telegraph Corp. as a "unified-management, multiproduct company." On that principle, in 48 major acquisitions in the last nine years, ITT has acquired a hotel chain (Sheraton), a car-rental company (Avis), a book publisher (Bobbs-Merrill), a home-builder (Levitt & Sons, Inc.), a paper and chemical company (Rayonier, Inc.) and assorted other ventures. Something Geneen still does not have is a consumer foods company. Last week he moved to remedy that deficiency by announcing that ITT, in an exchange of stock valued at $280 million, will soon acquire Continental...