Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...National Observer scooped the press Nov. 2 with a story about a colorful entrepreneur named Elizabeth Carmichael, who was about to produce a revolutionary three-wheeled car called the Dale. National Observer Reporter John Peterson breezily noted in a frontpage piece, complete with a photo of the dynamic carmaker next to her sporty space-age vehicles, that Carmichael and her "talented mavericks" had designed the Dale with a new kind of plastic body that would be safe in crashes at speeds of up to-50 m.p.h. The car would also get 70 miles per gal. of gas and cost less...
...excitement of Dublin life and its "maddening, entertaining stew of provincial chauvinism." Inevitably, his book is crammed with old-chestnut anecdotes, pub gossip "laced with the in toxicating ingredient of malice," and sharp observations. Most of these, also inevitably, take a dying fall: the slipshod car-assembly center in Cork that turns out "lemons (or limes)"; those ash trays proudly bearing the Gaelic legend, Deanta sa tSeapain (Made in Japan...
...with one arching stroke, and clapboard shanties flank it like chips nicked from the blighted elm trees and dusty earth all around. When the highway beads clear of the shanties, the Kansas River sidles up to it instead, with grain elevators on its banks. Just past city limits, my car radio falls silent...
...rear tire is punctured and the Mercury hobbles onto the shoulder of the road. We don't feel like climbing out. A man from the other car, parked now a few yards behind us, squats near the fender before coming to stare through my window. A khaki shirt flaps against his lank chest, his black hair touches his shoulders, and one arm swings round and round from its elbow, at a right angle to his hip, out of control. He offers us his jack...
Sherce is good at changing tires. She picks a nail out of the old one, for us to look at, and heaves the spare into place. She even talks to the man who'd been following us. Henshaw--an army veteran until his friend in the car up the road gets impatient...