Word: jackrabbits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Jackrabbit starts do waste gas, but the quicker the car reaches cruising speed, the better the overall fuel mileage. The optimum fuel consumption comes between 40 and 50 m.p.h...
...Englishman's experiment with truth-seeking in the desert. He chooses a simmering patch of wasteland east of Berkeley, Calif., and in a few hours discovers that his dry run is the real thing. As he waits under a road sign for his wife to return, a jackrabbit bounds into his shadow to cool off. This is followed by three rapid epiphanies. First, that his life was a gift to himself and others and that even his share of sunlight and shadow did not belong to him alone. Second, that "he was not trapped into surviving by the currency...
Conservation efforts are equally vigorous away from the office. Deputy Chief of Correspondents Benjamin Cate has just traded in an eight-cylinder sports car for a four-cylinder auto that cannot make jackrabbit starts but uses only half as much gasoline as the sports car. Picture Researcher Suzanne Richie has begun weaving blankets for friends on a foot-powered loom in her apartment, and Nation Reporter-Researcher Sally Bedell no longer leaves a 75-watt bulb on in her apartment to sustain her exotic $75 dracaena house plant. For Business Writer Jack Kramer, a former London resident, economizing on energy...
...students of form in the 100-yd. dash, Sprinter Steven Williams comes on in races with all the grace of a commuter chasing the morning train. While his competitors jackrabbit away from the starting blocks, Williams usually lags behind, frantically trying to rev up the spidery legs on his 6-ft. 3-in. frame. Instead of pounding machine-like down the track, he jitterbugs unevenly, his shoulders performing a dance of their own. "One must understand track," marvels Fellow Sprinter Herb Washington, "to understand how one can make as many mistakes as Steve Williams...
...been sold in the U.S. so far, but the company expects to snare 10,000 U.S. customers this year. Though the interiors seem cramped, the Mazdas are not cheap: $2,495 for the R-100 and $2,800 for the larger, more powerful RX-2. Their appeal lies in jackrabbit speed and smooth riding. The Mazda can accelerate from zero to 60 m.p.h. in 13 sec., and the faster the car is driven, at least up to 100 m.p.h., the quieter it sounds to passengers...