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...resembled a state of siege. Parties, theater events and public appearances were canceled. President Walter Scheel dropped all appointments outside the capital, and Chancellor Schmidt's wife Loki returned her tickets to a premiere performance of Aida. Henry Ford II moved a scheduled business meeting of the Ford Motor Co. from Cologne to England; British Prime Minister James Callaghan postponed a state visit to Bonn in deference to Schmidt's domestic problems...
...some difficulties remain. The most serious is getting the engine to start on a cold morning. Since the whole principle of diesel ignition is to raise the temperature of the fuel mixture by compressing it into a superdense mass in the cylinder, a cold engine block can keep the motor from starting at all. The Olds diesel has a block heater and a "prechamber," where the mixture is briefly heated by a glow plug. The driver turns on the ignition, then waits for an instrument-panel light to shine, telling him that he can step on the accelerator to start...
...least the displaced Tufts students know where they will be for the rest of the year. Almost 100 Boston College freshmen are staying at the Boston West Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge until their school can find a place for them on campus...
Tufts students a least know where they will be for the rest of the year. Almost 100 Boston College freshmen are now living out of suitcases in the Boston West Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge two miles from the school's main campus...
...paradoxical realities of vanning suggest another possibility. Perhaps the vanner's true destination is - the van itself. To grasp this radical notion, one may need to shift into metaphysical gear. Yet consider the vanner's relationship to the van: the true vanner has not merely romanced the motor vehicle in the traditional American way. Actually, the vanners have embraced and subjugated the homely panel truck and, with Pygmalion's zest if not his graces, have transmogrified it into something utterly new and distinct: a mobile monument to self. It is self-contained and self-containing...