Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...this the legion of drunken misfits who roam the highways, maintaining their licenses through "friends" at the Registry of Motor Vehicles, and sure enough, these cats start killing off a lot of kids who have never even terrorized a small Midwestern town. So they get all shook when they get hit with a big suit. Their first reaction? Outlaw motorcycles...
Stricter arms licensing could certainly not prevent the sort of crime perpetrated by Whitman, but it would keep guns away from at least some who might misuse them. Since Americans usually need licenses to marry, drive a motor scooter, run a shop or even own a dog, it is difficult to see why a license to keep a lethal weapon would be any abridgment of their freedom...
...targets," says he, "suddenly they start popping into your vision. When you look at rivers, you are looking for camouflaged boats under overhanging trees. You look for roads running up to rivers. They have to traverse a river somehow, so somewhere near that area are pontoon bridges or barges, motor tugs or ferries...
...upsurge seemed to bear out predictions that 1966 will be the magazines' best year ever, and the pattern generally applied across the board. A surprise exception: the Reader's Digest's 11% drop in ad revenues. Such varied magazines as Cosmopolitan, Teen and Motor Trend all announced revenue increases of more than 50%. Hugh (Playboy) Hefner's HMH Publishing did well enough to declare its first cash dividend, 75? per share, though it was a bit like transferring cash from one pocket to the other. Hefner himself owns 80% of the stock, giving him a personal...
...cartridge has become the most significant innovation in the $830 million-a-year record market since the advent of the LP in 1948. Four-track stereotape players for autos, sold mostly on the West Coast, have been available for about five years. Not until last September, when the Ford Motor Co. began offering a new eight-track player and cartridge-which crams up to 80 minutes of music on half the length of tape used in a four-track cartridge-did stereotapes begin booming. Lear Jet Corp. and RCA Victor developed the new cartridge and player. The eight-track sets...