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...doggedly on to Detroit, getting arrested again on the way, and challenged the automakers to match safety mirrors with his. Four auto companies examined it, eventually turned it down. Karl was despairing when the Department of Transportation was founded. He flew back to Washington and explained his mirror to DOT. But the department seemed uninterested also...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Lonely Passion of Karl E. Smith | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

...years were rolling by, and Karl had about given up, when DOT commissioned a research firm in Santa Monica to test the leading safety-mirror concepts. Karl's invention was among them. The report, which came out last year, said: "There is no vehicle on the road which permits maneuvers such as freeway lane changes and merges to be made as quickly, safely and with such a high degree of assurance as does the Smith car." As a result, there is a chance that a Santa Barbara firm, under contract to DOT, will build a prototype of Karl...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: The Lonely Passion of Karl E. Smith | 7/20/1970 | See Source »

BARBED wire is going up in lovely Phnom-Penh. Like tentacles from the war ravaging the countryside, the prickly wire now surrounds most important government buildings. Sandbag bunkers, usually occupied by young boys or girls proudly fingering loaded U.S. carbines, dot the streets. Cambodian officers strut about with pistols hoistered on their hips...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Phnom-Penh: What Is Going On? | 7/6/1970 | See Source »

...Wednesday morning, early-rising golfers will dot the manicured and exclusive greens of The Country Club. Those alumni who feel their sleep is more precious will join the golfers later for cocktails and lunch. While the men talk over old times, Harvard women will visit Gore Place in Waltham. Mr. Gore was an early Massachusetts governor whose home is now a showplace of American colonial architecture and styling...

Author: By Samuel Z. Goldhaber, | Title: 50th Reunion Class Comes Back-Four Wars Later | 6/9/1970 | See Source »

JACKSON: Well, God is gonna be black. Angels are gonna be polka-dot. Children will be flying airplanes. People will be walking around wearing air pollution masks. And big children, nine years old, will be engaging in sex on the corner...

Author: By Wallace TERRY Ii, | Title: Getting It All Together: Part II | 5/6/1970 | See Source »

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