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...Expensive. California has just taken a small but hopeful step toward bringing the blue back to its skies. The state Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board approved four "afterburner" devices to help eliminate unburned hydrocarbons from auto exhausts. All 1966 cars sold next year in California must be equipped with one of the approved devices; later they will probably be mandatory for old cars as well. The prices will be enough to bring tears to the eyes of California car owners even on smog-free days: factory-installed jobs will add up to $120 to the cost...
Died. Sir Henry Spurrier, 66, recently retired chairman of England's vast Leyland Motor Corp. Ltd., who inherited control from his father in 1942 when Leyland was limited to double-decker buses and army tanks, turned it into the world's largest manufacturer of heavy-duty vehicles by absorbing competitors and peddling everything from panel trucks to earth movers to 130 countries, including Castro's Cuba, to which Leyland is delivering 450 buses in defiance of the U.S. trade embargo; after a long illness; in Preston, England...
...diameter, made by Lockheed Propul sion Co. for the Air Force, was the biggest solid-propellant booster ever tested, and the simple fact that it developed 1,000,000 lbs. of thrust, exactly as planned, was a technical triumph. Lockheed engineers also man aged to test several new rocket-motor features on their roaring monster. The casing was made of a new nickel steel, only ⅜ in. thick; the lining of the booster's throat, seared by exhaust gases, was made of reinforced plastic, far lighter than conventional graphite: jettabs pushed into the racing exhaust to simulate steering. Each...
Whatever else it is-a proving ground for automobiles, a nostalgic bit of Americana-the Indianapolis 500 is mainly a dice with disaster. Drivers come and go, cars change, engines get bigger. The one constant is danger. In 54 years of Memorial Day racing at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, 56 people have died. But nobody has to twist a driver's arm to compete. The prospect of instant fame and fortune is inducement enough -even though he knows, as Eddie Sachs once said, that "in the long run, death is the odds-on favorite...
First, though, he meets Ann-Margret, who wriggles by the garage to coo: "I'd like you to check my motor." Once her motor turns over, it seldom stops. Neither does the movie, mostly because Ann-Margret-whose scanty wardrobe suggests that she draws her energy directly from the sun-gyrates with a stem-to-stern fury that makes Presley's pelvic r.p.m.s seem powered by a flashlight battery. Ann-Margret isn't worried about his sacrum, she is afraid he'll break his neck in the Grand Pree. But no. They enter a talent contest...