Word: hoods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Castle is one of Greene's patented Manichaean depressives, those saintly sinners whose jobs (crime, the priest hood, spying) allow the author to compose variations on his favorite themes: the pervasiveness of evil and the saving graces of kindness, love and even disloyalty. For Greene, disloyalty to institutions that threaten his ideals of individualism and humanism is a privilege, if not a right...
Next to health, heart and home, happiness for mobile Americans depends upon the well-tempered automobile. Computer technology may make the car, as we know it, a Smithsonian antique. In addition to the microprocessors under the hood that will help the auto operate more efficiently, tiny computers will ease tensions and make life simpler for the driver and passengers too. Ford Motor Co. now offers buyers of its Continental Mark Vs an option called "miles to empty." At the push of a button, the driver can get a readout on the amount of fuel in the tank, and the number...
Joel's career as a hood was long on style, short on rough stuff. Never officially graduating from high school, he drifted into a few local Long Island rock groups and recorded one solo album, which resulted in little notice and a prolonged legal wrangle with his management. Joel and his girlfriend Elizabeth lit out for L.A. To pay the rent, he played cocktail piano for half a year in a neighborhood bar called the Executive Room that advertised BILL MARTIN AT THE KEYBOARD. Joel emerged from this honky-tonk penance with a new wife (Elizabeth), a new contract from...
When Chicagoan Joseph Siwek asked his mechanic to do some work on his new 1977 Oldsmobile last winter, he was angered to discover that the engine under the hood was not an Olds Rocket V-8 but a less expensive Chevrolet power plant. The discovery led to a revelation that GM had put Chevy engines not only into Oldsmobiles, but into some 1977 Buicks and Pontiacs as well; GM became the target of about 250 state and private lawsuits. Last week, after months of legal maneuvering, the company reached a settlement with 44 state attorneys general, who had been suing...
...gingerly moving toward what many regard as the autos of a future in which it must make cars smaller to comply with federal gas-mileage requirements: front-wheel-drive cars. Front-wheel drive, an idea from Europe, makes possible a transverse engine-one that is fitted sideways under the hood. That saves enough space to permit a surprisingly roomy interior in a relatively small car. Moreover, there is no transmission tunnel running back through the passenger cabin to cramp leg room. GM offers front-wheel drive on some Cadillac and large Oldsmobile Toronado models and is preparing a small front...