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...long-haul trucking has been developed for National Van Lines by General Body Co. and White Motor Co. The high-bodied tractor unit perches the driver 8 ft. above the level of the road, which gives him better daytime visibility and avoids the nighttime problem of oncoming headlight glare. Back half of the unit is the equivalent of a rolling motel; instead of a cramped bunk behind the driver's head, the tractor has a small room with two bunks and a lavatory for the crew. Cost of the tractor...
...Arkansas City (Kans.) Traveler, Grand Island (Neb.) Independent, Independence (Mo.) Examiner, Maryville (Mo.) Daily Forum, Nevada (Mo.) Daily Mail, Newton (Kans.) Kansan, Pittsburg (Kans.) Headlight and Sun, Santa Maria (Calif.) Times, Shawnee (Okla.) News Star, Topeka (Kans.) State Journal, York (Neb.) News-Times, and stations KSOK, Arkansas City, Kans., KSEK, Pittsburg, Kans., KGFF, Shawnee, Okla. † For other news of the President's birthplace, see NATIONAL AFFAIRS...
...ready to market. Then his team moves in. One of biggest potential developments: a sys tem of polarized auto windshields and leadlight lenses that, in combination, take the glare out of night driving. One big obstacle: since the super-brilliant lights used in the Polaroid system would require new headlight and windshield glass for all the 60 million-odd cars...
...hire a Yellow Cab (with no two-way radio) and drive on Highway 99E the 120 miles to Eugene, at 25 m.p.h. When a car behind flashed its lights three times, he was to throw out the suitcase and drive on five miles before turning back. If no headlight flashed, he was to return at 25 m.p.h. via Highway 99W. He followed instructions exactly, his slow-moving cab jamming traffic in the early evening, but no lights flashed. By 5:30 a.m. the cab, its driver still ignorant of the plot, was back in Portland. Aaron Frank and his family...
...members tackled the matter of bumper stickers. First they tested the different methods of attaching a sign to a bumper-string, elastic, clips, hooks, adhesive. Having decided adhesive was most lasting, they began testing surfaces, determined on a kind called "Dayglo" which shines in sunlight or headlight. Dayglo comes in single, double and triple screen, hence more testing and the decision to use double. To find the best adhesive, lots of 25,000 were tested in various cities...