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...their beaches with "groins" (short jetties) in hopes of trapping the sand before it can be carried away. But the groins are only partly effective, and, like the navigational jetties, they also keep sand away from the beaches. Florida, despite prevalent use of groins, is still losing 20 million cu. yds. of sand each year...
...Plymouth's Road Runner, a stripped-down version of the Satellite, which, with the addition of the dome-shaped 426-cu.-in. "Hemi" engine,* covers the quarter mile in a blistering 13.5 sec. from a standing start, hits a top speed of 107 m.p.h. "Beep-beep" goes the horn, duplicating the sound made by the cartoon character, as a warning to slowpokes that the Road Runner is on its way. Cost...
...Ford's Carroll Shelby Cobra GT-500, a modified Mustang with heavy-duty suspension and transmission, hood scoops that ram extra air directly into the carburetors, and a new 428-cu.-in. engine that will be available next month on Ford's Mustang, Torino and Cyclone and Mercury's Cougar as well. Padded roll bars and shoulder harnesses are standard on the Shelby Cobra, as well they might be: the $4,200 car winds up to 150 m.p.h...
...American Motors' AMX, a $3,245 sports coupe on the market for less than a month. A 290-cu.-in. engine is standard, but another $123 rates a 390-cu.-in. replacement. Testing an extra-powered AMX, Land Speed Record Holder Craig Breedlove got the car up to 170 m.p.h...
...owned oil company AGIP, and a string of individual British investors. In 1969, the Phillips group will begin pumping natural gas ashore from its field at Hewett Bank, 20 miles off the East Anglican coast, under a 25-year contract that calls for a buildup to 350,000,000 cu. ft. daily by the seventh year of the agreement. The price: 2.87? a therm...