Word: disks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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White Fang & Black Tooth. Soupy (years ago he legally changed his name from Milton Hines) has been that way for years, dressed in a loose, V-necked black sweater and floppy, polka-dotted bow tie, taking pies in the face. Born in North Carolina, he started as a disk jockey in West Virginia, first hit it big in 1953 on Detroit's WXYZ-TV, where his TV antics cadged kids into eating lunch. Then he transplanted to Hollywood and bloomed on. He was such a smash that the stars lined up to get smacked by one of Soup...
...engine can accelerate the behemoth up to 63 m.p.h. in 9.7 seconds, faster than some sports cars, and the four-wheel disk brakes can stop it on a pfennig. A pneumatic suspension system keeps the car on an even keel through the sharpest curve, invisible wires in the rear window banish ice and frost, and a poke of the finger simultaneously locks all four doors, the trunk and the gas tank...
...spring-mounted bumpers and thicker doors, sealed side windows to keep arms and legs from flailing out in an accident. Detroit has already built test models with windshields slanted at a greater angle to forestall head damages, and with wrist-twist steering that uses a small, five-inch-diameter disk for each hand...
...locks, recessed and padded dashboards and seat belts as standard equipment, offered scores of safety items as options. Twin braking systems - which work even if one set of brakes fails-are standard equipment on Ramblers and Cadillacs, and several higher-priced cars are now equipped with still more efficient disk brakes. Lincoln has a windshield that pops out on impact...
First, they called a CBS all-night disk jockey, announcing that one of the boys, Richard Wideman, was about to enter his shower in an attempt to break the record. At that point...