Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Most newspapers swung round to the view that proliferating billboards were striking a blow at the state's greatest tourist asset: its unspoiled wooded hills and valleys. Although one letter to the editor insisted that "good billboards are beautiful and break the monotony of a long motor trip," citizen mail to editors and legislators ran as much as 30-to-l in favor of the ban. Crucial to the passage the bill was the support by the host of organizations most dependent on out-of-state visitors, including the Vermont Ski Operators and the Green Mountain Motel Association...
From this romantic point of view, Michèle covered the Viet Nam war for nine months, and indeed her life seemed charmed. Deciding to motor the whole length of South Viet Nam, she made 400 miles before the Viet Cong captured her. They treated her considerately, even sharing their tunnel with her during a U.S. air strike. Later, she wrote a vivid article for LIFE Interna tional, in which she stressed her captors' gentleness and perseverance. She contributed battle footage to an anti-U.S. film, Far from Vietnam; a book of hers about...
Result was that while Volkswagen and General Motors' Opel weathered the recession and are now prospering again, Fords have become a drag on the German market. Said the journal Auto, Motor Und Sport of the 1968 Ford models: "Never has a new line of cars attracted so little attention." But Ford hopes to hit the comeback trail in the fall with the introduction of its small, inexpensive "Escort" model...
...other fields have agreed to try to find permanent work for 500,000 jobless from big-city ghettos by 1971. On top of that, the National Alliance of Businessmen will seek 200,000 jobs for ghetto youth this summer. Says Alliance Chairman Henry Ford II, chairman of Ford Motor Co.: "Nothing can be plainer than the fact that these people must be given the chance to earn decent lives for themselves. And bringing them into the mainstream of the economy is a goal that can only be accomplished if business grabs the heavy end of the load...
When and if more is learned of this subject, it will be possible to apply such knowledge to the problem of traffic safety, and, further, to begin looking more closely at the still shrouded subject of homicide and suicide by motor vehicle...