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...Alcohol is absorbed rapidly into the bloodstream. Its most pronounced physiological effects are on the brain. When the blood contains .05% ethyl alcohol, the result is depression of the uppermost level of the brain, compulsiveness and a loss of inhibitions: .10% can affect the lower, motor area of the brain, impairing control of the body: .20% may cause an individual to need help walking; .30% can make him fall into a stupor...
Died. Leonard P. Lord, Baron Lambury of Northfield, 71, retired chairman of British Motor Corp., world's sixth largest automaker (behind Fiat), who rose from draftsman to managing director of Morris Motors, then in 1938 joined archrival Austin Motor Co., where he became chairman in 1945, and in 1951 engineered the Morris-Austin merger into B.M.C.; of a heart attack; in Gloucestershire...
Despite the strike, the Ford Motor Co. last week displayed some of its leading entries in the 1968 model sweepstakes-and did it with a flair. Greeting the press at the La Costa Country Club in Carlsbad, Calif.-about as far from the Detroit picket lines as the company could get-Ford Division Manager M. S. ("Matt") McLaughlin buoyantly said that dealers will soon have 67,000 of the '68 models on hand. He also managed to seem happy while noting that 158,000 of the '67s are waiting to be sold at a buyer's price...
Everyone in Stockholm seemed to have set his alarm clock to sound off be fore dawn. By 4 a.m., cars, motor scooters and flower-decked taxis that had been hired months before streamed downtown to the Kungsgatan, the city's main street. There they waited through a solemn radio countdown. At the stroke of five, loudspeakers blared: "Now is the time to change over." In a brief but monumental traffic jam, Sweden switched to the right side of the road...
...days leading up to the in evitable strike, the auto industry seemed to have only business-as-usual on its mind. The Ford Motor Co., which United Auto Workers President Walter Reuther had singled out as his initial strike target, was showing no interest in round-the-clock bargaining. At General Motors, where the threat of a strike was not so immediate, officials cheerfully predicted 1968-model sales of over 9,000,000 cars, up from an estimated 8,600,000 during the current model year. And throughout the industry, automakers went about introducing their new models (see following story...