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COMPACT-CAR SALES lead is held by Ford Motor Co.'s Falcon, which since Jan. 1 has sold 80,433 models v. 72,113 for American Motors' Rambler...
Died. Roy Knabenshue, 83, aviation pioneer, member of the famed "Early Birds" (among others: Orville Wright, Igor Sikorsky, Glenn Martin), first to fly (in 1904) a motor-controlled airship in the U.S.; in Los Angeles...
...During his many motor parades, the President cast his blue eyes and directed outspread arms not only left and right but also up high and around, sweeping in the welcomers perched atop roofs and on balconies, acknowledging the cheers of even the smallest groups. Days after he left, streetcleaners and cops, housewives and bartenders were still chattering about El Viejito Sonriente (The Smiling Old Man) and insisting that he had personally waved to each one of them...
Ever since Freudian patter became the common currency of the cocktail hour, the idea has been spreading that people who have accidents are "accident-prone." But for a massive group of accident victims-the 8,000 U.S. pedestrians killed each year by motor vehicles-there is no clear medical evidence one way or the other. Last week an American College of Surgeons meeting in Boston learned the results of an intensive and ingenious study that enlisted experts from the New York State Department of Health and the Bureau of Motor Vehicles, Cornell University Medical College, the office of New York...
...OFFER for a major interest in ailing Bavarian Motor Works, West Germany's seventh largest automaker, is under consideration. B.M.W., already licensed to produce G.E.'s J-79 jet engine, is slated to get a $100 million contract to build them for German air force's new Starfighter...