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Stewart, the rooster of vaudeville rock, prances about the stage in pomp and plumage. His costume includes a baby blue pantsuit with flowered muffler, a yellow negligee and gold toreador pants with a white sleeveless top. In order to maintain his concert pace, Stewart has to keep himself in top physical trim; he follows a preperformance regimen of steam bath, black coffee and port-and-brandy. At a recent show in Anaheim, Calif., he wiggled his way through Maggie May and Every Picture Tells a Story, and later, during an instrumental break, backstagers could see him gasping and wheezing behind...
...style vision of pre-clinic (and pre-answering service) medicine features a graying, slightly stooped general practitioner shrugging on a topcoat and muffler in the dim morning light. His patient needs him and he is ready to help...
...passed, then threw its top engineers into a crash effort to meet the requirements. Given too short a lead time-to retool assembly lines normally takes about two years-the best antipollution device the engineers could come up with was the catalytic converter. Shaped like a standard muffler and attached to the exhaust system, the converter would completely burn hydrocarbons and carbon monoxide,* turning them into harmless water vapor and gas. Estimated cost to the consumer: at least...
...vehicles moving up to 35 m.p.h., the racket of engine, muffler and tires must not exceed 86 db in trucks, 82 db in motorcycles and 76 db in cars...
Together with his sons, Floyd Jr., 49, and Bruce, 38, Floyd Gottwald is trying to convince the Government and the automakers that his company's new "lead trap," a disposable filter attached to an auto muffler, will stop lead from being emitted into the air. Trouble is, Ethyl's device does not trap all the lead. Besides, automakers claim that lead must be kept out of the gasoline itself because it clogs catalytic mufflers. These are metal containers for the chemicals that will remove enough air pollutants from auto exhausts to meet federal standards set for 1975.* Says...