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...Sherlock Jr., he rode the handlebars of a driverless motorcycle. In Steamboat Bill Jr., he flew through the air on a trunkless tree. In Our Hospitality, he went over a waterfall. When he employed sleight of lens, it was to achieve effects normally seen only on canvas. In The Frozen North, he climbed subway stairs-and emerged in Alaska. In The Playhouse, he staged a minstrel show with nine Busters. In the Pirandelloesque Daydreams, he left life to climb into a film within a film...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Great Stone Face | 11/2/1970 | See Source »

...Many Millimeters? Good gags, as any adman knows, stick in the mind. And so do successful commercials, so much so that they keep coming back like a bad memory. Shell once got good mileage out of a spot in which a driverless car went rolling off to a Shell station to lap up some gas with TCP. So now Sinclair shows an auto deserting a pair of newlyweds to get a quick belt of KRC. A few years ago, Chevrolet displayed a car atop a spire-like butte in the Mojave Desert. Ah so, said the Toyota people, and right...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: . . . And Now a Word about Commercials | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...same time propel them forward at 150 m.p.h. There will be no accidents no matter how heavy the traffic, because automatically guided cars are free of human error. Such high-speed cars will operate only on main highways. Inside cities says Dolmatovsky, the citizens will use slower, driverless taxis, which will be plentiful and free...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Dull or Concealed Dreams | 11/21/1960 | See Source »

...five people crawled out of the weird and apparently driverless vehicle safe in Greek territory, Ivanov called out the one word of Greek he had learned was a magic password. "Prosphyges! [Refugees!]," he cried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BULGARIA: Macedonian Try | 5/5/1958 | See Source »

...Guilty Flee. In Jonesboro, Ark., Mrs. R. J. Barnhoft was arrested for drunkenness when she drove into a service station dragging a driverless pickup truck by the rear bumper of her car, and whispered darkly to the attendant: "I wish you'd check that guy behind me; I think he's drunk...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Miscellany, Dec. 12, 1955 | 12/12/1955 | See Source »

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