Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...inch cars on the HO-scale track that raced a scale Mille Miglia, safe-driving obstacle course and drag strip for the "Grand National" championship were the products of the Aurora Plastics Corp., which joined with the Ford Motor Co. in organizing an elimination contest enlisting 1,000,000 "drivers"' in 48 states (the state champions ranged in age from eight, for California, to 37 for New York). But Aurora's Model Motoring sets, ranging from $20 to $50 (individual cars are $1.98 or $2.49), are only one of 13 different lines of miniature electric racing cars that...
Their most ambitious entry is British Motor Corp.'s new four-door Morris 1100, which is about a foot shorter than a Volkswagen. To smooth the ride on Europe's cambered roads, the Morris introduces a novel suspension system called "Hydro-lastic Suspension," after its two key components, rubber and water...
...wildly gimmicked night's rest in the history of the middle class. Today's motels bear about as much relation to the old tourist cabin as the Baths of Caracalla do to a penny arcade, and the grander names that now adorn them signal the newest look: Motor Inns, High Rise Motor Inns, Horizontal Hotels-almost anything but motels...
Atlanta's Americana Motor Hotel offers tropical gardens, crystal chandeliers, shops, beauty salons and underground parking, and the city's Cabana Motor Hotel's new addition will treat its guests to copies of French provincial furniture, $140 bedspreads, a glass elevator-and split-level rooms. And at the Inn of the Six Flags, halfway between Dallas and Fort Worth, there is not only steak-dinner room service and vibrating beds for travel-weary bones, but also a three-bedroom Acapulco Suite with its own private swimming pool, patio, and fulltime butler-all for $100 a night...
...idiosyncrasies, the sum of Before My Time is interminably less than its parts. With skill at re-creating the rich past, Tucci has hand-tooled a glittering vintage automobile. It is a perfect replica, with genuine brass driving lamps and a burled walnut dashboard. All it lacks is a motor...