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Meanwhile, the search for new, non-polluting power sources grows ever more active. Speaking at Columbia University in Manhattan last week, Dr. Richard S. Morse, head of a Commerce Department team studying motor vehicles, said that the Government was interested in "any possible means of moving people and goods around," including "fuel cells, batteries, turbines and steam engines." In fact, said Morse, "we're looking at everything from rubber bands...
West Germany is in a serious recession, and consumers are sitting on their pocketbooks. Volkswagen domestic production has dropped 25% from 1966's record high of 1,476,000 vehicles. Like U.S. automakers, the company has been hit by the safety scare. In the mini-motor field, which its beetles long dominated, VW is getting serious competition from General Motors' Opel and the German Ford. Nordhoff has been fighting the pinch with stepped-up exports and a new, cheaper ($1,121) 41 h.p. Model 1200 that he christened Wirt-schaftskrise Kafer, or "economic crisis beetle." With all that...
...finished work is designed to revolve once every eight minutes and is powered by a hidden ¼-h.p. motor whose reduction shaft is embedded be low its 8-ft.-high triangular base. In mathematical terms, Infinity is based on the Möbius strip, named for the 19th century German mathematician A. F. Möbius. It consists of a loop twisted on itself so that it contains one continuous edge and one plane. As the great form revolved majestically for the first time last week, the early spring sun glinted off its evolving planes, creating an impression of perpetual...
...years the Ford Foundation has lived beyond its means: total grants have exceeded income by more than $1 billion, and foundation officials have had to dip into capital assets-consisting mostly of Ford Motor Co. stock-to make up the difference. Now Ford has decided to retrench...
...work for nothing. In time he caught on as a $108-a-month draftsman at Huff Daland Airplane Co. of Ogdensburg, N.Y. Later he became a stress analyst at Buffalo's Consolidated Aircraft but was soon politely asked to look for employment elsewhere. He was fired outright by Ford Motor Co.'s aviation division...