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...world's first cars; in Phoenix, Ariz. In 1893 Apperson put together his first car in a little shop in Kokomo, Ind., later produced annually 1,500 cars (called Jackrabbits), prophesied in 1943: "When the American people are willing to sacrifice showing off, they'll get a lighter car built of light materials that will be cheaper...
...motorist cool by forcing a draft of air under and behind him will be put on sale by Comfort Conditioning, Inc. of Norfolk. Built like a conventional summer car-seat pad, the cooler has a four-blade fan in a steel housing, draws its power from the dashboard cigarette-lighter outlet. Price...
...disciplined life had its lighter moments. Lyman, the daring one, taught younger brother Ernest (now with a building-construction firm in Hackensack, N.J.) how to swim, shook the town each July 4 with blasts from his is-inch-long toy cannon, set off a homemade bomb in the stone quarry, practiced his rifle marksmanship (he later became one of the Army's best) in the attic on rainy days with a .22. One winter, while crust riding downhill on his sled, he lost control, rammed head first into a stone wall. Unshaken, he would have gone calmly back...
...year-old, Tomy Lee outgalloped Tuleg. He won six of eight races, earned $213,460. Turner became ferociously proud of his unheralded colt. When a handicapper weighted Tomy Lee two pounds lighter than Christopher Chenery's First Landing, Owner Turner swore that his horse would "run First Landing down" at the first opportunity...
...Like most other scientists, Van Allen is in no hurry to put a man into space. "A man is a fabulous nuisance in space right now," he says. "He's not worth all the cost of putting him up there and keeping him comfortable and working." Instruments are lighter, tougher and less demanding, are sensitive to many things that human senses ignore. They already have memories (tape recorders), and they can carry computers that will permit them to make judgments. An instrument-manned Venus probe should be able to make observations and adjust its course by firing small rockets...