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...automakers been so much on the defensive-or in such deep trouble. Testifying before officials of the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington last week, executives of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler and American Motors stated that their vehicles could not meet the strict-and, Detroit says, unrealistic -standards for exhaust emissions set by Congress in the Clean Air Act of 1970. Each of the companies asked for more time-at least one year-to produce cleaner cars...
...engineers into a crash effort to meet the requirements. Given too short a lead time-to retool assembly lines normally takes about two years-the best antipollution device the engineers could come up with was the catalytic converter. Shaped like a standard muffler and attached to the exhaust system, the converter would completely burn hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide,* turning them into harmless water vapor and gas. Estimated cost to the consumer: at least...
...that 17 million cubic yards of earth would have to be moved for the plant's foundation; the final total was closer to 40 million. When construction stretched into the severe winter of 1968-69, work crews had to mount jet aircraft engines on trucks and focus the exhaust on the ground to thaw it, and on newly poured cement to keep it from cracking. In the spring, the construction site became a sea of mud. Hundreds of yards of dikes and runoff canals had to be built. Fiat had to rely on Soviet subcontractors to supply many...
...overhaul the CRR needs. Students left the CRR originally because they objected to the revised Resolution: we fail to see how they can return until its original promise as an even-handed document applicable to all segments of the University community is redeemed. In addition, Paul's amendments hardly exhaust needed reforms in CRR procedures, even though they deal with some of the Committee's more glaring excesses...
...perhaps the most controversial. Built on a 1954 Hillman Minx chassis, the head of "The Dickmobile" is 18 gauge steel stretched over a pencil wire frame, while the body of the car is molded fiberglass. The entire vehicle is painted in various shades of pink, except the purple exhaust columns that run along the sides, and the rear of the car that is painted a pubic hair black. The plush interior of the car is upholstered in tufted black naugahyde and has a rosewood dashboard and paneling...