Word: motorizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Secretary, Harvard Student Council; Junior Usher; Dunster House Captain, Combined Charities Drive; Chairman, Student Council Elections Committee and Parietal House Committee; Dunster House Committee; Motor Sports Club; Young Republican Club; Student for Nixon; Pre-Law Society...
Appointing her mother as her stand-in at the graduation exercises, Sylvia dashed off on a shoestring motor tour of the country with seven young men. One of them was her husband, Reed Porter, a tall, blond budding financier whom Sylvia had met on a subway in her junior year at Hunter. She was 18. "Instead of having an affair," says Sylvia now, "we got married. It was a nice marriage, but it was meaningless." The Porters were amicably divorced...
...Ford Motor Co. it looked like a simple business deal: Ford wanted to buy complete control of its British subsidiary by paying about $20.50 per share for a stock that was selling in London for $12.88 per share. But as the stock price soared nearly $7 on the news last week, British tempers soared even higher. "Kill this sellout. Britain's economic independence is at stake," screamed Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. Intoned the Daily Express: "The British Empire comes before the Ford empire." The Financial Times warned soberly that since British Vauxhall is already wholly owned...
...enforcement campaign, which will encompass motor scooters and bicycles as well as cars, has come as a result of continued flagrant violations after previous warnings had been given, McCarthy declared. He cited cars parked within 20 feet of an intersection, parking beside fire hydrants, and failure to be properly registered as the chief automobile offenses...
Police officers will of course continue to ticket bicycles and motor scooters for such offenses as riding or parking on sidewalks, not observing stop and go signals, passing on the right, and riding down one way streets in the wrong direction, McCarthy asserted. These violations, he noted, have continued despite the ticketing campaign begun a week...