Word: fumes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...California law is the model for federal legislation that will go into effect for all '68 models. Chrysler has already improved its carburetor and spark adjustment. Ford will install its "Imco" (for improved combustion), and American Motors now has approval for its new engine designed to cut fume emission. General Motors has developed an air-pump system driven by the fan belt...
...Those are the worst hours," she says. "To pity him: wrong. To try to calm him: wrong. If he fumes, he wants you to fume with him. There is nothing you can do, really. Certain subjects are taboo at these times?anything upsetting, anything about his pieces for that day. Even remarking that he's never made a mistake in one of them. If you say that, he will...
...bang of a blown-out spark plug or the crunch of a bent fender makes the U.S. motorist fume, but it is music to Gulf & Western Industries, Inc. As a leader in the U.S.'s $7 billion-a-year market for auto parts, G. & W. lives on breakdowns and damage. It lives well: since 1958, it has multiplied its annual sales 22-fold to $175 million, acquired 57 companies that make products as diverse as guitars, jet-engine parts and survival equipment for spacemen. Last week, in its most ambitious diversification, G. & W. made a deal to merge with...
...This article has just appeared in the first issue of the Bay State Banner, Boston's new Negro newspaper, and is reprinted here with its permission. Jonathan Kozal '58 was graduated summa cum laude, held a Rhodes Scholarship, and is author of the novel Fume of Poppies. He was the object of nation-wide attention last spring when he was fired from his post as a fourth-grade teacher in the predominantly-Negro Gibson School in Roxbury. The reason given him was that, along with poems by Frost, Longfellow and Yeats, he had read to his pupils Langston Hughes' "Ballad...
Roger D. Brown is managing editor. Jonathan Kozol '58, author of Fume of Poppies, and Richard Tilinghast are the senior editors in Cambridge. Herbert Kohl '59, and Mark Mirsky '61 are the New York senior editors...