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...forget to put gas in it and can frequently be found sitting disconsolately by the roadside waiting for someone to rescue him. Mostly, his car works well - because Angélica drives. She pilots it skillfully through traffic while he sits beside her explaining the fundamental principles of a motor car, two or three new ideas for traffic control, how landscapes can best be painted as seen from the window of a speeding automobile. She sees to it that when he is painting a mural he actually gets to the wall and does not tarry somewhere along...
...never had B.C. rubbed elbows with so many tycoons at one time as he did last week at the Waldorf-Astoria. The bosses of Du Pont, General Motors Corp., General Electric Co., U.S. and Bethlehem Steel, Ford Motor Co., Chrysler Corp., the Pennsylvania Railroad Co. and many another great industry came to eat breast of guinea hen with Forbes (at his expense) and get illuminated scrolls naming them "Today's 50 Foremost Business Leaders...
...system's chief working parts (as applied to a railroad car's wheels) are a pendulum, a set of floating weights, hydraulic cylinders and motor-driven screw-jacks. Functioning faster than a human brain, the mechanism goes into action the instant the car wheels hit a bump in the track or begin to rock from side to side. By adjusting the wheels to compensate (in three thousandths of a second), the shock absorber keeps the car itself on an even keel. It also tilts the car automatically to a comfortable angle as it rounds a curve...
...Pittsburgh, an auto thief jumped into Lee McGuigan's car, rolled slowly downhill to a stop, ran away defeated when he found that the motor had been removed for repairs...
Results of the Council's poll, in the form of postcard questionnaires sent to all students owning motor vehicles, will be tabulated Monday, and if the demand is neglible, the Corporation will probably veto the Stadium plan. But a fairly substantial vote for the proposal may bring about the creation of the first University-sponsored parking...