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...also disregarded an Indian political ethos which holds that age and experience deserve proper respect. After all, Sanjay was little more than a rich, rowdy youth of questionable intelligence with a fascination for cars and airplanes. Seven years ago, he received a license to open India's third motorcar company, one which would produce cars for the "small man." Except for a few experimental models, the automobiles never went into production. Instead Sanjay used his license to become a dealer for International Harvester and Piper Airplanes, activities no doubt more lucrative but certainly less legal...
...advisers some clear directions ? and limits. A proposal to put the main tax and price burden on gasoline, rather than oil prices generally, never was seriously discussed because the President had repeatedly ruled it out. Said one Republican leader: "His whole ethos is bound up in the motorcar syndrome of the state of Michigan." Still, there were some hot debates. To induce energy companies to develop more domestic oil and alternative sources of energy, Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Enders argued strongly that the Government should fix a "floor" below which prices of oil could not drop; Simon protested...
...Managing Director David Plastow, 42, who was named head of the new management group that launched the motor division as an independent firm after its aero-engineering parent went under. Plastow says that the breakup of the old company was the best thing that ever happened to its motorcar division because "too many workaday decisions - including every aspect of pricing - had to be referred to the old company...
...Speed is our god, a new canon of beauty," wrote the Italian Futurist Filippo Marinetti in 1909. "A roaring motorcar, which runs like a machine gun, is more beautiful than the Winged Victory of Samothrace." Ever since then, the automobile has been present on the margins of Western art, though not, as the horse once was, at its center. There has never been a flow of car images to match the innumerable equestrian ones of the past, because the car is-as Marinetti implied-a work of art already, a mass-produced corporate sculpture, permeated with style. Logically, then...
...thesis, came when the frontier closed. A shift of equal importance, believes Professor James J. Flink of the University of California at Irvine, involves the automobile. Said he at last week's meeting of the American Historical Association in Manhattan: "The era of uncritical mass accommodation to the motorcar has ended; for most Americans, automobility has become simply utilitarian and lost its quasi-religious connotations; most important, the automobile and the automobile industry no longer call the tune and set the tempo of American life." One major reason for this shift in attitudes, Flink thinks, is young Americans...