Word: modell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...from the University of Wisconsin's Stout campus. Even with some donated parts, the exotic power plant modestly housed in a blue Dodge Omni body cost $25,000 in cash. Student Steve Mann insists that the car would be "as cheap as or cheaper" than any current production model to massproduce. Mann is young and tousle-headed. But with poise beyond his years he points out that if society were to switch from petroleum-based fuels to hydrogen, fuel would cost the consumer only about 180 a gal. in gasoline equivalent. "But it'll take ten years before...
Throughout a remarkable lifetime as an influential member of the royal family, as an acclaimed combat hero and strategic planner in World War II, Lord Mountbatten's considerable qualities indeed seemed larger than life. He appeared to embody, if anyone could, the very model of what Englishmen cherish as their national character. As French President Valéry Giscard d'Estaing eulogized after the assassination last week: "He personified British courage, dignity and elegance...
...second model is the metaphor of natural decay, the seasons of human life, for example. Animals, people, have birth, growth, periods of vigor, then decline and death. Do societies obey that pattern? The idea of decadence, of course, implies exactly that. But it seems a risky metaphor. Historians like Arnold Toynbee, like the 14th century Berber Ibn-Khaldun and the 18th century Italian Giovanni Battista Vico, have constructed cyclical theories of civilizations that rise up in vigor, flourish, mature and then fall into decadence. Such theories may sometimes be too deterministic; they might well have failed, for example, to predict...
...country's best bootmakers. At 85, Enid Justin, owner of the Nocona Boot Co., remains the feisty matriarch of the Lone-Star State bootmaking community. Back in 1925, when she founded her business, she cut and stitched the boots herself and peddled them all over Texas from her Model A Ford. Today her workers produce 1,500 pairs a day, though it still takes some 200 separate steps to make a single boot. Another oldtimer is T.C. ("Buck") Steiner, 79, a former rodeo star and owner of the Austin-based Capitol Saddlery. His boots take from five to nine...
...indispensable tools of justice in their saddlebags: a copy of Blackstone's Commentaries and a flask of whisky. Today Judge Robert Moran, 52, travels the five counties of Nebraska's 16th judicial district in a battered 1972 Plymouth with 140,000 miles on it (his 1960 model died at 240,000). His tools are two loose-leaf binders with summaries of his case docket and a black bag stuffed with lawyer's briefs. His territory is his state's western panhandle. It is sparse ranch and farm country, though railroads hauling low-sulfur coal have made...