Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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There was space, lots of space, in the starry skies above, but Astronaut Scott Carpenter, 39, discovered that the dawn comes up with a thundering herd in Bermuda. Buzzing along on one of those mid-ocean motor bikes at 5:30 a.m. to the U.S. Navy base where he was temporarily stationed for some underwater training, Carpenter met two cars passing on a narrow road, and when he sheered aside to avoid them, bounced into a doral wall just the way the tourists do. Toll: a compound fracture of the left arm that may take surgery for a proper...
...navigating a square in Boston is driving around in an open field. Pedestrians close their eyes and sprint across. None of the dulling certitude of Washington here. None of the blandness of our push-button society. It's man against nature, or what passes for nature these days--the motor...
Spinning Markets. Under Crump, C.P.R. also rounded out its transportation empire by absorbing Smith Transport, Canada's biggest trucking firm. This fall it will begin construction of a new hotel in Montreal, has faced up to the motor age by taking on the management of motels. But its greatest growth could come from its considerable remaining land holdings, whose rich resources the road has now begun to exploit. The newly formed Canadian Pacific Oil and Gas, Ltd., earned $5,600,-000 for C.P.R. in 1963, and another stripling subsidiary, Pacific Logging, contributed $253,000. A 51% interest in Consolidated...
...Expensive. California has just taken a small but hopeful step toward bringing the blue back to its skies. The state Motor Vehicle Pollution Control Board approved four "afterburner" devices to help eliminate unburned hydrocarbons from auto exhausts. All 1966 cars sold next year in California must be equipped with one of the approved devices; later they will probably be mandatory for old cars as well. The prices will be enough to bring tears to the eyes of California car owners even on smog-free days: factory-installed jobs will add up to $120 to the cost...
...FORD MOTOR Co.'s problem is to make the Mercury rise in Detroit's hotly competitive climate. Last week Henry Ford II picked a man for the job, promoting Paul Francis Lorenz, 47, from assistant general manager of the Lincoln-Mercury Division to vice president and chief of the whole division. He replaces Ben Mills, 49, one of the original Whiz Kids, who was moved up to vice president in charge of Ford Motor purchasing. A Phi Bete (Chicago, '41), Lorenz is a finance-trained protege of former Ford President Robert McNamara, was his personal assistant...