Word: haddon
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...small time hockey hero and man-about-the-small-town of Delisle, Sask. (pop. 700), knocks around a good deal, getting up to no good. He rouses the passions of a loyal barmaid named Loretta (Elizabeth Ashley), even while leching after the daughter of the hockey-team owner (Dayle Haddon) and making up to a raucous number who works in the bowling alley over in the next town. Implausibly, Dillon has enough energy left over from these various pursuits to carouse with his lumpish buddy Pov (John Beck) and play a fierce, albeit mediocre, game of hockey...
Films of those tests were shown at a Washington press conference last week by Institute President William Haddon Jr., former director of the National Highway Safety program. They might badly shake many buyers of small new cars, which now account for one-third of sales. In some crashes, the small car was smashed into a pile of twisted junk barely recognizable as an auto, while the bigger car sustained relatively moderate damage. In the Chevrolet crash, a dummy placed in the Impala only struck its head against the dashboard, but the dummy in the Vega was beheaded by a section...
...Detroit, automakers do not dispute the test results but theorize that small-car buyers are aware of the safety risk. Haddon doubts that. For example, he cites a Transportation Department-sponsored study of accidents involving 420,000 cars in New York State in 1968 that few auto buyers know exists. That study found that 3.1% of the people involved in crashes of big cars weighing an average of 4,800 Ibs. were killed or seriously injured. But the rate of death or serious injury rose to 4% in intermediate cars averaging 3,700 Ibs., to 6.4% in domestic compact cars...
...Compact U.S. cars like the Vega, Pinto and Colt in Haddon's test crashes generally weigh from...
Died. Winthrop L. Biddle, 74, penniless scion of the fabulous, prosperous, numerous Philadelphia Biddles; in an auto accident; in Haddon Township, N.J. Rejecting the family fortune, Biddle chose a drifter's life. He was killed by a hit-run driver while pushing a shopping cart full of his belongings down a country road...