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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...
...earned her another scholarship?to Wellesley. The gangly figure ungangled and the crooked teeth began to straighten. The boys started turning around when she passed, and the empty social calendar was soon crammed. There was still no money: during her freshman summer Ali waited on tables at the Chalfonte-Haddon Hall hotel in Atlantic City. Brother Dick remembers the pretty 18-year-old with the Irish temper simmering on the back burner. "To me, she really became a human being the time she was waiting on a table with a great bunch of waitress-kidders. They began riding...