Word: drive-it-yourself
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Invented by an Amsterdam engineer named Luud Schimmelpennink -apparently no kin to the Dutch cigar manufacturer of that name-Witkar is a two-seater, drive-it-yourself electric vehicle. It purrs peacefully at up to 20 m.p.h. and 2.4 miles between strategically located stations where it can be recharged in five minutes. There will be 15 in July, and eventually Amsterdam's burghers plan to have a fleet of 1,500 of the buggies in the central city...
Just like any other middle-aged couple seeing the U.S.A. in a Chevrolet, Soviet Ambassador Anatoly Dobrynin, 44, and his wife Irina ate hot dogs, stayed at motels, and plotted their way on A.A.A. maps for a 1,366-mile Western drive-it-yourself tour in a rented Chevy. Well, maybe there were a few small differences, home being where the heart is, and all. "It's a beautiful country," said Dobrynin. "Very much like Russia." The Rockies reminded him of the Caucasus, Wyoming of the Steppes, and Yellowstone's panhandling bears "are from Siberia." When it came...
...many codes as he had pushed through in a year was not wholly unreasonable. Of the codes yet to be made only one or two (e. g. ship-building and anthracite) were important. The rest were small and miscellaneous: gold fish, atomizers, window cleaning, suspender trimming, artificial limbs, cemeteries, drive-it-yourself, button holes, traveling salesmen, ironing board pads...
Chicago Yellow Cab Co., Inc. (operates 2,800 Yellow Cabs in Chicago; also Drive-it-yourself companies in New York, Chicago, Delaware) Net profit...
Another source of trouble is supplied by the many "Drive-It-Yourself" concerns which have invaded the Square. They invariably send many hounded students to the sheltering legal wings of the Board. One Harvard student from Switzerland, having rented a "U-Drive-It" vehicle and meandered over to Boston in it, finally parked beside the Statler and left his coat and hat in the car. When he returned he found his habiliments missing, but being unperturbed drove back to Cambridge. As he climbed out of the car he was arrested and charged with having stolen it. Dumb-founded over...