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...contestant looked like a horseshoe. Another resembled a giant pizza box with a bubble on the top. Others were shaped like teardrops, pea pods, torpedoes or pyramids. All were festooned with dark glassy cells that shimmered like fish scales in the sun as the vehicles purred, rather than roared, down the back roads of America. Along the way, people gawked and pointed, squinted and saluted, did double takes, took snapshots and lifted small children to give them a better look at what their future might hold. "Oh, here comes another one!" cried Susie Black, one of hundreds of people...
...strange procession of vehicles shaped like teardrops, pea pods and torpedoes is purring through the back roads of America, pointing the way to practical electric cars...
Residents of Alabama, Georgia and the Florida panhandle must have thought of Noah as up to 16 in. of rain poured down in 48 hours. In Elba, Ala. (pop. 4,355), the torrent breached the levee holding off the Pea River. No one was killed, but 3,000 had to evacuate the area. Elsewhere, bridges washed away, and caskets floated up from the rain-loosened soil of a Selma cemetery...
...were stuck in the apartment. They looked so fantastic." Now he is rummaging his way through the '50s, which, from the viewpoint of someone born in 1957, is an era of sexy, whimsical dressing. For fall he plans to draw on "all my favorite old clothes -- trench coats, pajamas, pea coats, letter sweaters. My bride will be a prom queen, maybe in a big, reversible skirt." To get himself in the mood, he runs around Greenwich Village, where he has bought a brownstone, in his father's old camel-hair topcoat...
...operation that will include several large plants. Next month Mobil and GENPAK, a food-packaging manufacturer in Glens Falls, N.Y., will inaugurate the first recycling plant in the U.S. that will handle fast-food containers and other products made of polystyrene foam. The firms will transform the plastic into pea-size pellets that can be used in wall insulation and industrial packaging...