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Beltsville Turkey. As a consequence of the new "interlock" system, up to 60% of drivers and front-seat passengers in new cars are now belting in. However, thousands of new-car owners are increasingly frustrated by the new system. Because any weight on the front seat activates the system, he, she or it must be buckled in before the car will start. Newspaper Columnist George Will recently bought a 22-lb. Beltsville turkey, plopped it in the front seat and found that to get his car moving, he had to belt the Beltsville. Drivers become livid when they...
Those who refuse to wear belts under any circumstances have a host of ingenious ways of deceiving the interlock. Some start the car by leaning in the window and turning the ignition key (with no weight on the front seat, the starter will kick over). Others accomplish the same deception by grasping the steering wheel and pulling themselves up while turning the key. But with both these techniques, as soon as the driver sits down, the buzzer will go off-unless he fastens his seat belt...
...arena there is a bizarre, show-offy thing originally built for cattle exhibitions and horse shows. It's made up of a couple of tremendous concrete horseshoes that interlock and support the hanging roof. Inside everything is the barest gray concrete, with dust in the corners, and a great wide concrete floor which that day was only about half filled with chairs. Up front a big American flag stretched above the stage...
...year's design changes-and price increases ranging from $61 to $271 a car-stem from Government-ordered improvements in safety and antipollution features. The new models have advanced emission control units, reinforced roofs and strong, impact-absorbing bumpers. Motorists will notice most the federally mandated seat-belt interlock system. Lap and shoulder belts have been combined into one harness with a lock that completes an electric circuit with the starter. If the driver or a front-seat passenger fails to lock the harness, the car will not start. (If the car does not start even after the harnesses...
...vision?" For that vision was so intense, so brutally direct and precise, even translation into the photographic medium did not diminish its power. The collection of Arbus's work at the Worcester Art Museum testifies to this. Repulsion and fascination are wrenched out of your guts when your eyes interlock with those of dwarves, transvestites, nudists, howling babies, and even a human pin cushion. What small sympathy you can muster is directed inward, as you beg for relief from Arbus's harrowing onslaught, and are left numb when none comes. The impact grows stronger as the images accumulate, making...