Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...should expect to see the balance change in their direction." At the same time, he feels, U.S. science is being hampered by budget squeezes, causing U.S. scientists to waste their intellectual resources looking for handouts. Says he: "The whole climate is unhealthy. When you are in a car you can tell if it is accelerating or decelerating. We in the science car know that, even though it is still running pretty well, it is decelerating...
...Philadelphia. His Exploratory Moon-Probe Lunacycle MAUD, (Manually Assisted Universal ,Deviator), complete with Astrocat ("Since cats always land on their feet, she is carried to establish which way up gravity is"), is reverently ensconced in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum. The Emett Vintage Car of the Future, dedicated to the Spirit of Future Retrogression, is installed at Chicago's Museum of Science and Industry, and a new suburban Cleveland shopping mall proudly displays his Featherstone-Kite Openwork Basket-Weave Mark Two Gentleman's Flying Machine with its unique autopilot FRED (Freehand Remembering Empirical Doodling...
...Vintage Car, sponsored by Borg-Warner, is equipped with cut-glass liqueur-decanter fog lamps, a crystal ball to predict traffic conditions ahead, a petunia-powered antipollution catalyst and a speedometer that registers from Nought, through Gently, to AWFUL. In fact, Emett notes, the machine "has a great safety factor: it doesn't move." His Far Tottering Railway was a hot ticket at the 1951 Festival of Britain at which it transported more than 2 million passengers; it is now the puffing pride of Toronto, installed at the Ontario Science Center. The Gentleman's Flying Machine is powered...
Alex and Maritza meet as she is running out, literally, on her third prospective bridegroom. She jumps into Alexander's car, weeping and yelling, pursued by her dear old dad and other hot-blooded types. "Three times my father sell me," she tells Main. "For good money, you know." Despite these aborted forays into wedlock, Maritza has managed to preserve her integrity as well as her virginity. "I never alone before," she confides in her smoke-cured gypsy accents as she and Alex pull into the Main digs. "Gypsy's family, they stick together. I got no place...
Rose Lewis, one of the defendants, said that they pulled up in front of a friends house to get directions and were followed by a man in his car, yelling, "Blacks get out of my neighborhood...