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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Into the Carriage. Eventually, five eight-year-olds claimed the car as their private playground, crawling in and out of it and smashing the windows. One of the last visitors was a middle-aged man in a camel's hair coat and matching hat, pushing a baby in a carriage. He stopped, rummaged through the trunk, took out an unidentifiable part, put it in the baby carriage, and wheeled...
...conclusion is that in offices, schools and streets, a big-city feeling of personal anonymity encourages destructive behavior. It is discouraged by a sense of community-an atmosphere in which vandals feel that anyone watching disapproves of what they are doing. To check his theory, Zimbardo parked a derelict car in a middle-class neighborhood of suburban Palo Alto, California. During three days of observation, he reports, it was not touched once...
...suspect that many conglomerates have been overpriced. One of the most controversial conglomerates of all is debt-ridden Ling-Temco-Vought, which plans to reduce its controlling interest in Braniff Airlines from 67% to 55% and sell off some other assets, including all of its holdings in National Car Rental. L.T.V.'s stock declined last week by 81 points, to a 1968-69 low of 741, and the shares of many other popular conglomerates also suffered substantial losses...
With its glamorless name and ungraceful looks, the Coot should be about as seductive to car buyers as two steel tubs hung between four large tires -which is just what it is. It is also the smartest thing on wheels to a growing corps of Coot fanciers. They drive it through mud, up mountains, across lakes and into woods, all the places conventional vehicles cannot roll. They use it to hunt, fish, mend fences, find stranded sheep and haul fertilizer. The vehicle is also put into service by federal forest rangers and by a dozen law enforcement agencies for search...
Coot sales were 1,800 last year and are expected to double this year - hardly enough to worry executives at Ford or Chevy. But the $1,595 Coot is the van guard of a new kind of car, the "off-the-road vehicle." At least 14 other...