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...from an awareness that not everyone is capable of overcoming deprivation and performing a useful role in society. Then. too. the President's pals, like himself, are mostly upper-middle-class Americans who have achieved mightily. His closest golfing companions are Rodney Markley, a vice president of Ford Motor Co., and William G. Whyte, chief lobbyist for U.S. Steel Corp. Last week, in an admission that mildly embarrassed the President, Whyte said that his company had paid for five of Ford's golfing trips to New Jersey and Florida between 1964 and 1973 when he was a Congressman...
...looks like an overbuilt bicycle, sounds like an impatient teakettle and, in fact, combines pedal power with petroleum push. Called a moped (from motor-plus-pedals), the motorized bike is catching on rapidly in the U.S. as a practical, inexpensive form of short-haul transportation for commuters, students, the elderly and fresh-air lovers out for a spin-not to mention the suburban housewife who is reluctant to drive a gas-guzzling, nine-passenger station wagon two miles for a can of tuna. Since it whirs along on a two-stroke minimotor with less horsepower than a power mower, goes...
Dual Drive. The two-wheel buzzers have their disadvantages. On very steep hills, the small motor may need help from foot power (two separate drive chains allow both forms of propulsion to work simultaneously). So as not to obstruct traffic, all states that permit mopeds ban the slow vehicles from freeways and major highways...
...Conservation Act, automotive engineers in the past few years have improved fuel economy by cutting down the weight of cars, designing lean-burning, "stratified-charge" engines and developing electronic ignition systems that fire spark plugs at precisely the right time in the engine cycle. Last week the Ford Motor Co. revealed that it had developed still another way of saving gas. Ford President Lee lacocca announced that within two years, his company will offer six-cylinder vans and light trucks equipped with a device that will automatically shut off fuel to three of the engine's cylinders when...
...period for his mother-in-law. Brandino recalls: "The first time I ever heard about football, I was nine years old and it was a radio broadcast of the 1925 Rose Bowl-Alabama v. Washington. I've been hooked since." Brandino and his crimson-and-white 28-ft. motor home are a fixture at Alabama games. Friends, former players, curious passers-by stop by for drinks as Superfan grills pregame steaks. Says Brandino: "Football is a passion around which we order our lives. We make friendships over football and we strain friendships. But mostly, football holds us together-especially...