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...example, has at one time or another broken both collar bones and a leg while racing. AMA officials any the sport is safe, however, and that they've had no fatalities. But money cures wounds, and Higgins receives a $50,000 salary to ride the bikes of the Yankee Motor Company of Schenectady, New York. Living in a luxuriously appointed 24-foot motor home. Higgins hauls around his bikes in a 16-foot trailer that includes a complete workshop...
Brazil's new hero comes by his chosen profession naturally enough. His father, a former competition driver, is a motor-racing journalist and broadcaster. His mother, who named her son after Ralph Waldo Emerson, has raced sports cars. His older brother Wilson, 28, also races on the Grand Prix circuit. The elder Fittipaldis tried to interest their sons in a less violent form of racing-in sailboats. It did not work. "We always finished last," Emerson remembers. "We were a disaster sailing." Last is a position Emerson is not likely to see in his accelerating career on the road...
Petula, 1968: the sponsors, Chrysler Motor Corp., try unsuccessfully to quash a shocking sequence in this Petula Clark special. In the sequence, Petula's white hand rests momentarily on the black arm of Guest Star Harry Belafonte...
...rudder's effective steering angle, a group led by Naval Architect Barry Steele, of Britain's National Physical Laboratory, revived an idea once proposed for aircraft wing flaps. They fitted rotating cylinders around the rudder posts of several ship models (see diagram). Equipped with its own small motor, the cylinder can spin in either direction. Thus when the rudder is pushed hard to port (left), for instance, the cylinder is rotated in a clockwise direction. This directs a flow of water against the back of the rudder, smoothing out the turbulence there and making the rudder effective...
...Both are combinations of TV sets and cassette-player attachments, but they are too expensive for the mass market. Sony has sold some 15,000 U-matics in the U.S. since their introduction last year-nearly all of them to schools, hospitals, businesses and other institutions. Last month Ford Motor Co. bought 4,000 for use in its dealer-education program. Since June Cartrivision has been offered for sale in some Sears, Macy's and Montgomery Ward stores, but only a few hundred at most have been sold. Cartrivision's makers hope to have a $700 model available...