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...music that accompanies the car exhibit is a soundtrack, a collage of songs, played--the dealership never missing a trick--on a Delco car stereo speaker. "Love Me Tender." "Heartbreak Hotel." You have to love "Heartbreak Hotel," even if the man next to you is being an idiot, and poses next to the car in a mock Elvis stance that's more embarrassing than funny. It's just a great song. The guy thinks he's the life of the party. In the open back seat of the limo is a shirt and flashy fender guitar. Never played. Never worn...
...shorter and lighter. Trimmer cars can be driven by smaller engines that drink less gas per mile. Technology was also refined. Emission-control devices, always the enemies of fuel economy, were built in, not slapped on, making for more efficient engines. Ignitions were more precisely tuned. GM's Delco-Remy division developed an electronic gizmo called MISAR, which monitors driving conditions and adjusts ignition-spark timing for optimal performance (for now, only the Oldsmobile Toronado sports the device at GM, although Chrysler has installed a similar device on several models). By 1976, the GM fleet average had risen...
...Muncie. Other department stores are also doing a pretty good business. J. C. Penney, the Industrial Trust & Savings Bank, and the Muncie Federal Savings & Loan have put up new buildings within the past two years. A full work force comes and goes from the Chevrolet transmission plant and the Delco-Remy battery plant. But Warner Gear, maker of auto transmissions and normally Muncie's No. 1 employer, has laid off one-third of its boom-time payroll of 4,500. Many of the city's foundries and tool and die shops that supply the automakers are at least...
...Restons came back to the U.S. to stay. The father found work in the Delco division of the General Motors Corp. in Dayton, Ohio, and the family lodged in an industrial section of the town. There Jimmy Reston spent his youth, impressed by Mother Johanna's example of frugality ("She would walk an extra mile to a different grocery store to save 15?"). Johanna had great ambitions for her son. "Make something of yourself," she urged. "It's no sin to be poor, but it's a sin to remain in poverty...
...happened by, stopped to help, and was cranking furiously away when the motor kicked. The backlashing crank broke his jaw; he later died of complications from the injury. Kettering, an engineering graduate from Ohio State University ('04), by then set up in his own Dayton Engineering Laboratories Co. (DELCO), heard of the accident, decided that he could do something to prevent others like...