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Called Pedalite, it is simply a bicycle pedal with a light inside, powered by flashlight batteries. It shines white to the front, red to the rear and to the side-tracing an eye-catching pattern of moving light in all three directions from which a car may come. Last year 69,100 bike riders were injured and 540 were killed by cars, and most of these accidents happened in dusk or darkness...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Highway: New Light on the Bike | 5/7/1965 | See Source »

...Benzoni kept his cool, and we moved to the next scene ... riding our bikes to school (we'd all borrowed bikes from our more typical friends). This became a real chariot race as smiling bodies tried to pedal as close as possible to the camera protruding from the back end of Benzoni's convertible...

Author: By Philip Ardery, | Title: Harvard's Old Elegance... ...and New Decadence Captured for the Fans | 5/3/1965 | See Source »

...Candidate." Into the imbroglio dropped the British Fascist Party, a gang of racists who decided to bring the color question into the by-election campaign with a vengeance, even though Gordon Walker and his Tory opponent, Leyton Engineer Ronald Buxton, tried to soft-pedal it. Nastily and noisily, the neo-Nazis invaded Gordon Walker's first campaign rally in Leyton, were only repulsed after Gordon Walker threw a right uppercut and Labor's burly Defense Minister Denis Healey hurled the Fascist leader, Colin Jordan, off the platform into the front...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: The Battle of Leyton Hall | 1/22/1965 | See Source »

...window and looked back, just in time to see him (a Lafeyette County deputy) aim his shotgun and fire the second shot. Then I just said, 'OK Ford baby, show your stuff 'cause it's time for you and me to get out of here,' and I put the pedal on the floor. When I got over the county line I changed the tire that he had shot and then went back into the county...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: The Mississippi Summer Project: Holly Springs Participant Reports Nervous Beginnings, Eerie Tension | 9/25/1964 | See Source »

...window and looked back, just in time to see him (a Lafeyette County deputy) aim his shotgun and fire the second shot. Then I just said, 'OK Ford baby, show your stuff 'cause it's time for you and me to get out of here,' and I put the pedal on the floor. When I got over the county line I changed the tire that he had shot and then went back into the county...

Author: By Peter Cummings, | Title: The Mississippi Summer Project: Holly Springs Participant Reports Nervous Beginnings, Eerie Tension | 9/22/1964 | See Source »

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