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...make at least 180-proof ethanol, which is strong enough to power a typical car motor, a home brewer needs only to throw some vegetable matter such as corn, potato peels, even rotten garbage, into a vat. He then adds a couple of commonly available brewer's enzymes (to speed up the conversion of starch into sugar) and some baker's yeast (to bring about the fermentation). After fermentation is complete, which takes less than a week, the mess is dumped into a still, where the alcohol is boiled off. Basically just moon shiner's gear...
...Bond film, 007 gets his weapons from Q, that master of gadgets who provides Bond with something which you can bet 007 will use later on when all appears lost. Although one of these gadgets (a throbbing silver motor-boat with all the extras) is wasted on a chase scene with footage lifted from Live and Let Die, it nonetheless makes up for the obvious absence of the modified Ferrari which always seemed to be at 007's disposal throughout all his other films...
...Ford Motor Co. too is feeling the pinch, with sales of its big Thunderbirds down 41% for the year so far, and purchases of Mark Vs off 24%. But the plunge-of-the-year award so far goes to the Cougar, which had sold 18,775 by mid-June in 1978. For the same period this year, fewer than 3,000 Cougars have been bought-only 35 of them during the middle ten days of June. At Chrysler, sales of Dodge Aspens are down 30% for the year. The company's hottest autos are the subcompact Dodge Omni...
Dutch engineers kept the machine's weight down to 130.5 lbs. by fashioning the body out of plastics. A 50-cc moped motor was tuned for top efficiency. To maintain the required 9.3 m.p.h. average speed, the driver repeatedly accelerated, coasted until the speed dropped, then slowly speeded up again...
Climaxing a 26-year Ford Motor Co. career, he was formally named chief executive. In the fall, when Henry Ford II steps down and Caldwell takes over, he will be the first non-Ford in 73 years to run the world's second largest automaking company. Boston University recognized this last week by making Harvard business school Graduate Caldwell an honorary doctor of laws. The citation sounded more like a Ford brochure: lauding Caldwell as an eloquent spokesman for the free enterprise system, it also stressed his success at selling Ford trucks and bringing the Fiesta minicar to market...