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...1800s. At earlier meetings, Johnson's flying squad heard Maryland officials complain about book-thick federal regulations, going into such "ridiculous" detail as one by the Department of Health, Education and Welfare demanding that nursing homes have doors exactly 4 ft. 2 in. wide. In Kansas, Superintendent of Motor Vehicles L. A. Billings railed against a flood of complicated directives on highway safety: "We have your 13 directives-any one of which would take five years to implement. And you want us to tell you how we'll meet them in one month...
Douglas novel about the life of Christ and a man whose life was radically changed by the sacred garment Christ wore to his Crucifixion. The sponsor, Ford Motor Co., gives everyone an added Easter present by settling for only one commercial break...
Winners of the duration awards were Ford Motor Co. Engineering Consultant Frederick J. Hooven, whose tissue-paper "flying wing" stayed airborne for 10.2 seconds, and Missile-Motor Salesman...
Japan's busy automakers last week rolled out a pair of gifts. The first, personally delivered to Emperor Hirohito's palace by Nissan Motor Co. President Katsuji Kawamata, 62, was a 100-m.p.h. limousine-at last ending imperial dependence on foreign makes. The second was a gleaming batch of figures. They showed that in 1966 Japan had bumped Britain out of its No. 3 spot, moved in behind the U.S. and Germany in world car and truck production...
...industry's two leaders-Toyota Motor Co. and Nissan, which account for 70% of Japan's total production-are leading the push into overseas markets. Early attempts to export the underpowered, stiffly sprung cars built for Japan's potholedroads were flops. Now, says Kawamata, we do not "take second place to any make." Japan last year sold 266,000 cars and trucks from Kenya to South Korea. Best customer: the U.S., especially the West Coast, where Toyota's $2,000 Corona and Nissan's $2,300 Datsun are among the new rages on the road...