Word: carsons
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...builders, David Saar and William Carson. said that the car would average between 50 and 70 miles per hour. The car. which cost $25.000. is equipped with speed-increasing and friction-reducing devices along with the standard STP sticker on the window...
...Saar and Carson have entered the car in the second Clean Air Car Race, to be held next summer. The race, sponsored by two professors, one from M.I.T. and another from Cal Tech, will begin in Cambridge on Aug. 24 and finish in Pasadena. Calif. about seven days later. Other entries are from Cal Tech, Cornell. Toronto, and Pennsylvania...
...first race held two years ago, was a contest between an earlier battery-driven car of Saar and Carson, and an entry from Cal Tech. One-hundred miles from Pasadena. the M.I.T. car, which was leading by 24 hours, broke down and had to be towed to the finish...
Franklin Russell, 43, is a tall, sturdy, New Zealand-born nature writer with the kind of rugged looks that excite casting directors for beer commercials. He has been called the most interesting and accomplished writer in his field since Rachel Carson. (He is, in fact, far more accomplished; The Sea Around Us and The Edge of the Sea were basically beads -of fact strung on a thread of prose that often strained for poetic effect.) Unlike Miss Carson, however, Russell is not a sentry on the ecological DEW line. His books, Argen the Gull, Watchers at the Pond...
...seeking the means for protest and redress after more than a century of patience and passivity. Edited by Jason McManus and written by Ed Magnuson and Keith Johnson, the article drew on the research of Washington Correspondent Richard Saltonstall as well as the reports of TIME stringers in Anchorage, Carson City, Seattle and Phoenix. For at least two of the many people who contributed to it, the project had a special meaning. New York Correspondent James Willwerth, who did much of the reporting, has sponsored an Indian child through the Save the Children Federation. She is a White Mountain Apache...