Word: lightweights
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...class and kitsch. The store sells $200 Tony Lama boots-as well as $2.19 models of Mount Rushmore and corncob toilet paper for $1.19. Left-handed calf ropers can buy lariats twisted especially for southpaws. The Rock Hound Shop offers fossils and crystals. Campers buy heavy iron skillets, lightweight canteens and water-purifying tablets; ranchers buy lousefly killer, sheep-branding liquid and cow vaccine. God knows who buys hundreds upon hundreds of Wall Drug gimcracks, from spoon holders to ashtrays. "People want a little something they can take back to Grandma," says Bill Hustead...
...become the favorite American weekend sailboat by far and helped make Alter a millionaire several times over. Though the twin hulls of Hobie Cats make the vessels a bit tougher to maneuver than single-hulled sailboats, the real thrill of skippering a Cat is in its exhilarating speed. The lightweight vessels can reach a motorboat clip of nearly 25 m.p.h. in a fresh wind. Exclaimed the America's Cup champion Ted Turner after sailing a Hobie Cat: "That's the most fun I ever had in my whole life on any sailboat, and I've been...
Made largely of tough lightweight plastics -Kevlar fiber struts, Mylar sheathing, a Lucite windscreen, all from the project's sponsor, Du Pont-Challenger weighs only 217 lbs., excluding Ptacek, who had managed to diet down...
...insisted that the flight (total cost: more than $725,000) was not midsummer madness but the best way he knew to show the potential of solar power as an energy source. Not that he has given up on conventional energy. His next goal, he says, is to promote a lightweight, two-seat plane with a gasoline engine so efficient that it can fly round the world nonstop without refueling. - By Frederic Golden. Reported by Ken Banta/London and William Dowell/Paris
...high-mileage sweepstakes has been its participation in the West German government's Vehicle of the Future research project. Begun in 1978 with the participation of VW, Audi, Daimler-Benz, Porsche and BMW, the program has brought engineering advances in everything from engine design to the use of lightweight plastic in bodies, frames and even in axles. VW has received $7.5 million in government funds and spent another $7.5 million of its own money on the studies. Though Ford and General Motors are independently working on high-mileage cars for the early 1990s, Volkswagen has for now stolen...