Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Rollin Henry White. 90. pioneer Ohio automaker who in 1899 developed a flash boiler that propelled White Steamers down the highway just two years after the famed Stanleys, in 1906 helped found White Motor Co., the U.S.'s largest independent truck manufacturer; in Hobe Sound...
...spacecraft's electronic nervous sys tem took over and issued commands of its own, starting a one-hour warmup period. It turned off instruments and turned on guidance gyros. It swung the directional radio antenna aside to get it out of the blast of the mid-course rocket motor. At the end of the warmup, Mariner II was ready for the crucial maneuver of its long voyage. Replaying the commands from earth, it rolled 9.33 degrees and pitched its nose around for 139.83 degrees. This turned its mid-course rocket motor forward, putting it in position to slightly reduce...
...Wily Dino de Laurentiis, who has revitalized Italy's film industry by making movies (War and Peace, Attila) with international casts and the specific purpose of tapping international markets, is the son of a small Neapolitan pasta manufacturer. In Britain, neither George Harriman, who as head of British Motor Corp. is the United Kingdom's biggest automaker, nor Financier Charles Clore, who has won fame as London's "Takeover King," can boast the once-traditional public school and university background...
Shared markets have also led European manufacturers to move closer to one another in product styling. Since Genoa Industrialist Enrico Piaggio sent his Vespa motor scooters swarming through Europe as the first postwar apostles of the Italian look, Italy has become firmly established as the fountainhead of European design. Britain's Clore, whose multitudinous holdings include a corner on 22% of the British shoe market, makes periodic Italian tours to keep up with the latest in footwear; British Motor Corp.'s Harriman turned to Italian Stylist Pinin Farina to design autos that would sell better on the Continent...
...technicians to examine malfunctions. When the spacecraft finally rose above its flaming tail and disappeared into the warm darkness, preliminary tracking data from Johannesburg indicated that Mariner might miss Venus by some 600,000 mile's-too large an error to be corrected by its mid-course steering motor...