Word: muffler
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Chrysler and American Motors announced that they will modify the engines of 96% of all cars they deliver to California for the 1966 model year, hoping to eliminate as much as 90% of smog-producing exhaust hydrocarbons. The antismog systems developed by the independents oxidize exhaust gases in a muffler "afterburner" and would have cost motorists between $80 and $120 installed. Detroit's system oxidizes the exhaust hydrocarbons before they leave the engine, will add only between $10 and $35 to the customer's auto cost and practically eliminate the independents' devices from the lucrative...
...music-rock 'n' roll with a straight stick and no muffler-death emerges only in traffic safety parables...
...speeding three times in 16 days in 1959, lost his driver's license, got it back two months later by lying about past convictions. After the parkway smashup, police found ten unanswered traffic tickets in the glove compartment of his car (five for driving with a defective muffler, five for parking violations). In late July, the department announced its findings: 1) Martinis was speeding on the evening of the accident; 2) he was zigzagging through traffic; 3) "the accident was a direct result of Martinis' swerving" from one lane to another; 4) he left the scene...
Early last week Martinis finally got around to paying another penalty: $65 in fines for his five defective-muffler tickets, issued in mid-April and mid-May. And that was not the end of the road. At week's end, the grand jury indicted Martinis on five counts of vehicular homicide-one for each person who died on the Henry Hudson Parkway that Sunday evening...
...face is grey and his hands are speckled with age now. Heavy, stoop-shouldered, protected even from springtime by his muffler, he is a grandly Churchillian figure on the campus. His music is still spiced with youth and so are his interests: Jazz Pianist Dave Brubeck built such a deep rapport with him that he named his son Darius, and Milhaud occasionally shocks prissy listeners by saying that good jazz can steal his attention from dull classics any time. His youthful spirit echoes especially in his lively Provencal wit. Hoping to end an argument with him, a student once pleaded...