Word: cowl
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...standard. Even beyond these, most new cars feature safety items that are either standard or optional. >General Motors cars have plastic caps over window-crank handles to soften the gouging action of metal under impact. Pontiac is introducing windshield wipers that, when not in use, retract into the engine cowl to allow the driver unobstructed vision. Many G.M. cars have a dashboard light that, when the brakes fail, winks like a slot machine. >Ford has made standard a "seatbelt reminder light" that flashes on when the engine is started. Lincoln-Mercury's new Cougar sports car will not start...
Holy barracuda! Now, thanks to that diabolical device, the camera, the truth is out! Divested of his bat cowl, the caped crusader is none other than U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman E. William Henry, 37, who roared out of his cave to do a comic song-and-dance at a Multiple Sclerosis Society benefit in Washington. But an evildoer took his picture. Would the caped commissioner repeat the act before the Women's National Democratic Club as requested? Would the network archenemies of ABC-TV's Batman think the chairman was giving dastardly publicity to the bat channel...
...Caped Crusader. Hordes of people who recalled Bob Kane's comicbook creation as well as the 1943 movie serial (TIME, Nov. 26) pushed their toddlers out of the way to get a good look at the TV set. Among other things, they saw a mesomorph in cape and cowl expostulate: "My own parents were murdered by dastardly criminals" and "I'll stand at the bar-I shouldn't wish to attract attention," while Batman's sidekick, Robin, a wide-eyed adolescent, stood at the ready with such replies as "Gleeps!," "Holy barracuda!" and "Holy flypaper...
Little known when he took over G.M., little inclined to be as visible as his predecessors, "Engine Charlie" Wilson and Harlow Curtice, Donner shuns speechmaking, keeps a careful cowl over his personal life and, says one colleague, "has an idea that General Motors' chairman is expected to be one of the most dignified men in the world." He rose through the financial side of the business, has never worked at making or selling a car. Donner does not consider this unusual. "People seem to think of accounting as a rigid little box," he says. "At General Motors the financial...
...Immaculate Conception, "ees shown as a youth," Dali explains in his macaronic idiom, "because thees painting represent le dream of Columbus, and youth ees le time for dreams. Other figures are monks and sailors qui come along weeth Columbus." Modestly he adds that the monk completely hidden in his cowl is actually a self-portrait. The giant sea urchin in the foreground represents "le real shape of le earth as discovered by le American Satellite Explorer Two" (actually, Vanguard Beta). In his dream, Dali's young Columbus meets not Indians but symbols of past and future. He is greeted...