Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Grand Rapids, 20,000 people jammed Campau Square. In Kalamazoo, a turnout of 12,000 brought an admiring exclamation of "fantastic!" from Michigan's former Governor G. Mennen Williams-and a frenzied mother of five invaded his car to capture his right shoe (size 8½, with arch support). In West Virginia, he was greeted like a returning hero...
...same campaign lyrics: "All the way! All the way!" The same day, Premier Lynden O. Pindling, 38, strolled into a new suburban school that his government had built on neighboring Andros Island, and cast his vote. "I think a win is sure," he said as he popped into his car. Then he popped back out again and, in mock alarm, asked: "Don't you think so?" The crowd laughed and cheered...
...play James Bond with the portable phone is 1) $2,160 and 2) a license from the Federal Communications Commission, which is granted once the applicant proves that he is a U.S. citizen and able to operate the equipment properly. Not that the briefcase portable-really a miniaturized car phone-is difficult to use. The user pushes a row of eleven buttons, one after another, until he finds an open channel (on a busy channel, he can overhear the conversation). He then holds down a transmission switch on the hand set and gives the mobile operator his call, which...
...unit, which shares its channels with car phones, operates in the 150-megahertz band. It has an output of 25 watts, which makes it normally serviceable within 30 miles of a mobile operator. No matter how distressing the conversation turns out to be, profanity is not advisable. The FCC prohibits swearing, and mobile operators are quick to interrupt when the language turns blue...
Halfway through the car model-year, automakers were elated to learn last week that sales during the normally dull quarter from January to March were surprisingly high. A spurt of car buying during the last ten days of March had already started Detroiters smiling, but it was not until overall figures were published that their most optimistic extrapolations could be verified. More than 2,000,000 cars were sold in the quarter-up 18% over the same months of 1967. The volume for the first quarter of 1968 was surpassed only in the record years...