Word: motorization
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Joey Gargan was an assistant U.S. Attorney in Massachusetts from 1961 to 1964, when he entered private practice in Boston. If Gargan failed to advise Kennedy to report his accident promptly, it was not through ignorance of motor vehicle laws; he had handled countless claims arising from car accidents. Gargan has been generally respected for his competence as a lawyer, yet the Kennedy family has absorbed almost all of his loyalty and attention. The son of Rose Kennedy's sister Mary Agnes Fitzgerald and Joseph F. Gargan, a prominent Lowell, Mass., attorney and World War I hero, Joey Gargan...
...boast, Meyer Lansky, the gang's leading financial wizard, was actually being overly modest when he chortled in 1966: "We're bigger than U.S. Steel." Measured in terms of profits, Cosa Nostra and affiliates are as big as U.S. Steel, the American Telephone and Telegraph Co., General Motors, Standard Oil of New Jersey, General Electric, Ford Motor Co., IBM, Chrysler and RCA put together...
...Edsel cannot have the kind of revenge on its detractors that Richard Nixon has enjoyed; it will not rule the roads, or even be put back into production. In its way, however, the ponderous auto with the odd grille, which lost more than $200 million for the Ford Motor Co. in 1957-'59, is making a comeback. A band of loyal loser lovers is lavishing affection and dollars on the survivors of the 110,847 Edsels produced before Ford had a better idea and ended production...
...Edsel shipped to Hawaii to be closer to him, and the long-distance bus driver who, when he sees an Edsel, stops his bus and tries to buy the car on the spot. There are still about 45,000 Edsels on the road, and Ford Motor Co. has been helpful in providing spare parts and owner's manuals...
...film is poorer for it. Nothing in Easy Rider's endless shots of motorcycles (stolen, as was some of Roger Corman's work in Wild Angels--in which Fonda also starred--from Kenneth Anger's incantatory Scorpio Rising) matches the groaning ferocity of Steppenwolf's lyrics ("Get the motor running/Shoot out on the highway/Looking for adventure/And whatever comes our way/Hey darling gonna make it happen/Take the world in a love embrace/Fire all of our guns at once and explode into space") and these disjunct moods clash to disengage the viewer. And isn't there something obscene in playing Jimi Hendrix...