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With its sleek, windswept contours, General Motors' two-seat Impact looks like any number of trendy sports cars. But the Impact is like no other vehicle on the road. It doesn't have a gas tank. It uses little oil. And it gets 120 miles with each fill-up. Miles ahead of its time, the Impact is an electric car that runs on 32 10-volt batteries. Since it burns no fuel, no tail pipes emit noxious fumes into the atmosphere. Though the car is experimental, GM last week announced it would produce it in a plant that can turn...
...marketing gimmicks have ever been able to touch the gasoline credit card. With more than 36.4 million such company-issued cards in the wallets and purses of American motorists, stopping for a fill-up has rarely been much tougher than pulling into a station, whipping out the plastic and announcing, "Charge it!" The gasoline credit card was, indeed, one of the first mass-marketed charge cards, appearing as long ago as 1914 when Texaco, then a young company, began distributing them to customers...
...area is, to the dollar, the same as the median. And for the past twenty years, political response has been uncanny accurate reflection of the national mood. The figures, showing the Democratic pertain of the two-party vote in the last five initial elections, bear out the contention fill-up and Roper are wasting their time in many other area of the nation: with this statistical information, a CRIMSON editors recently spent two dying the history and demography of and then, in the last days of October, two-day foray into the town for depth to discover the political attitude...
Finally the party was embarked on the King Fill-up and proceeded to Nantasket, where the usual program of events took place. The clams went down with evident enjoyment, and vast quantities of liquid refreshment were consumed. The water was so cold that the Seniors were unable to take their annual bath, except for one hardy individual, whose desire for cleanliness overcame him. The home trip was disastrous, but the Seniors finally arrived in Boston after severe losses...