Word: motorizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Their costume-jeans, plaid shirt, jacket-is their trademark. Those who can afford it ride sputtering convoys of motor scooters, complete with snug-sweatered girl friends perched behind. Besides the slashers and the holdup artists, there are the bobby-soxers and song faddists, who burst into Los Cerrillos airport last month to greet Canadian Rock-'n'-Roller Paul Anka, causing $25,000 worth of damage before airport crews cooled them off with a riot hose. But Anka, who affects boyish dignity and grey flannel suits, looks like a Boston banker compared to the Chileans' own pride...
...hill and straight into a filling station. The arresting blonde at the wheel told a solicitous mechanic that she was having trouble. He raised the hood, looked up wildly and announced: "Lady, you don't need a mechanic, you'd better call the police. Somebody stole your motor...
...elaborately arranged stunt-motor carefully removed from the car, movie camera concealed to catch the mechanic's panicky reaction-was typical of Candid Camera, probably the longest-running practical joke in history. For 13 years, the program (known as Candid Microphone in radio days) has kicked about on the networks, intermittently joined the Jack Paar, Steve Allen, and Garry Moore TV shows. This season. Candid Cameraman Allen Funt is back on the air (CBS) with a new half-hour show that features Ar thur Godfrey and Singer Dorothy Collins (the girl in the motorless car) as fellow cards, plus...
...severe crackdown on violations of motor scooter and bicycle traffic regulations will begin immediately, Sgt. John E. McCarthy, Safety Officer of the Cambridge Police Department, announced yesterday. The crusade is the result of repeated and flagrant disregard for Cambridge ordinances by riders around the University area, he declared...
...from a gas turbine engine, the first ever used in a fire truck, and the latest of the expanding uses of gas turbines. Although gas turbines first came of age in turboprop planes, they promise to have a much bigger future in powering everything from road-building machinery to motor boats and refrigeration systems...