Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Easy Laws. Honda led an earlier attempt to put the U.S. on two wheels. In the mid-'60s it sold lightweight, brightly colored machines that helped strip motorcycling of its greasy, violent image. But sales fell off, largely because state laws turned ownership of the little bikes into a hassle. The current moped madness was touched off by new laws in 31 states that class the machines as bicycles or "motorized bicycles" instead of motorcycles. Result: moped owners in about half of those states do not have to register their bikes. In many states they do not even need...
...Roof is no pulpy lightweight thriller--it has something important to say, and it says it very well. It is not, however, the kind of film you'll rave about, but it is quite good and definitely worthwhile. And compared to most of the films showing during what Vincent Canby aptly calls the "silly season," you can't lose. The only thing you can lose, in fact, is a couple of ingrained preconceptions about who and what the good guys really...
...Radcliffe varsity lightweight four was originally scheduled to race Yale's strong heavyweight novice four, but Yale unfortunately cancelled the contest on Saturday morning...
Yale will send their heavyweight novice four up against Radcliffe's lightweight four in a two-mile tilt which should prove interesting. The lights finished a strong third in a six-boat field last week...
...from other imports but also from new small cars to be brought out soon by Chrysler and American Motors. Some, ironically, will be powered by VW engines. One selling point for the Rabbits that will be made in Volkswagen's Pennsylvania plant: about 20% will be equipped with lightweight, fuel-stingy diesel engines, the first large-scale introduction of diesels to the American market...