Word: manuals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chrysler, General Motors and Studebaker-Packard have all decided to introduce "intermediate" models bigger than their compacts but smaller than their standard cars. In addition, virtually every make will have a "pizazz" model (TIME, July 21) to satisfy the public's craving for bucket seats and floor-mounted manual gearshifts. All this diversity worries the automakers because it shaves their profits with higher manufacturing costs. Yet they are racing headlong into it in the hope that with a year of frank experimentation they can find one car size that suits the majority of buyers and around which they...
...very first orbit, Titov took over the manual controls of the Vostok II, checked out the systems designed to let him steady his capsule as it curved along its predetermined arc in space. On the third orbit, Titov ate a three-course lunch, squeezed out of tubes like toothpaste. On the seventh orbit, after 9¼ hours in the air, Titov passed over Moscow, radioed: "I beg to wish dear Muscovites good night. I am turning in now. You do as you please, but I am turning in." With that, Titov lay back for the programed 7½ hours...
...Liberty Bell 7 approached its apogee, traveling at 5,310 miles per hour, Grissom took manual control with a new and hopefully more precise set of controls. Weightless by now, he found the manual controls sluggish, had difficulty turning his capsule by means of its small hydrogen peroxide rocket nozzles. "Having a little bit of trouble with the manual controls," he reported. Seven minutes after launch, he managed to point the capsule and fire the retrorockets. They slowed his speed only slightly, but if he had been in full orbital flight, they would have curved him down into the atmosphere...
...fender. A pizazz version will get the bucket-seat treatment and the rest of the optional works. The Corvette, the European-style sports car, again will get only the most minor grille changes. Pontiac will have a big car, the Grand Prix, with such pizazz optionals as four-speed manual transmission and tachometer. The compact Tempest, with a new convertible model in the works, will sprout two tiny ridges that are not quite tailfins, will change the traditional split-tear grille to a horizontal, continuous...
...what reads almost like a Behavior Manual for Modern Poets, Clem drifts from Acapulco to Paris to New York-wenching, wiving, divorcing, insulting his friends and occasionally scribbling. During his final, alcoholic collapse he sits in a Greenwich Village bar playing the literary clown to agents and publishers, sexual adventuresses and adoring disciples. He is found one morning, overcome by escaping gas, in the apartment of an admirer who lies sprawled nude on the sofa. The girl dies immediately, but Clem lingers several days-time enough for the "trooping animals," with "a brutish anxiety...