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Harold ("Red") Poling: "Once we discover why we lost the market in California, we will prevent the same thing from happening to us elsewhere." To increase its West Coast visibility, Ford prominently displays pictures of the Mustangs it sells to the California Highway Patrol with the caption, "This Ford chases Porsches for a living...
...that wistful reckoning, the last such ingenuous summer came along about 1960. American self-confidence was at its zenith. Ambitious public works were in vogue. The brand-new Interstate Highway System was growing by 40 miles a week. In Arizona's Glen Canyon, just over the border from Utah, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation had started building the dam its engineers believed would finally tame the wild ups and downs of the Colorado River...
...rebel offensive began with a series of attacks on P.L.O. positions in Lebanon, particularly those near the Beirut-Damascus highway. From Tripoli, on the northern Lebanese coast, Arafat issued a statement explicitly accusing the Syrians of helping the rebels. Syria promptly dismissed Arafat's charges as "lies" and instead blamed the P.L.O.'s troubles on "those who have failed to resolve their internal problems because of their big mistakes and shortsightedness." According to Arafat's chief military deputy, Abu Jihad, an emergency meeting in Damascus of Fatah's 73-member Revolutionary Council failed to resolve...
...auto industry is one of the biggest gainers. Sales of American-made cars in the second ten days of June were up 73% over the same period a year ago. But the automakers also got some potentially bad news last week. The Supreme Court ordered the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration to reconsider its decision to free automakers from a requirement that they equip future cars with automatic seat belts or airbags. The safety devices could cost the automakers up to $1,100 per car, which would be added to the sticker price...
Mining companies began hollowing out the caverns in the 1940s as they dug for limestone for highway construction. Rather than use the opencut quarry method, which scars the landscape, miners tunneled deep into bluffs along a limestone seam 22½ ft. thick, creating rooms with pillars. In all, 200 million sq. ft. of space has been scooped out over the years, and an additional 6 million sq. ft. is being opened up annually...