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...start the car when any accessories -heater, radio, windshield wipers-are turned on. Keep an aerosol can of ether in the car. You may not have to use it to fight off bears or buffaloes, but it can be a useful way to whiff alive a cold, dank motor...
What has happened to A.M.C. so far is that in all the 23 years since it was created by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator* and Hudson Motor Car Co., the company has never been able to find a secure niche in the auto market. It prospered in the late 1950s by bringing out the first U.S. compact, the Rambler, but then lost much of its market share when General Motors, Ford and Chrysler started making compacts too. In the mid-1960s it tried to compete against the Big Three by offering a wider range of car sizes and lost disastrously...
...coasts, an experience that comes no closer to free flight than watching a rerun of Twelve O'Clock High. But as British Science Writer Peter Haining relates in his delightful chronicle of man-powered flight, a handful in every epoch have defied gravity without the aid of motor...
...penalty box, which had resembled a Howard Johnson's Motor Inn in the B.U.-Northeastern fracas, was delightfully vacant. Nobody seemed to miss seeing a power-play...
...three-story clapboard house on Everit Street. Dick Cooper keeps fit by playing tennis in summer, squash in winter He neither smokes nor imbibes anything stronger than wine. In fact, he prefers apple juice, preferably the mellow German Apfelsaft. He commutes to his nearby office by bicycle or motor scooter But those easy commuting days will soon be over