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...York World's Fair next April, Ford will introduce a four-passenger sports car that will cost less than $2,500 (v. about $4,500 for the Chevrolet Corvette and Studebaker Avanti, already on the market); it will have the long hood and short rear-end characteristic of Britain's top-selling sports cars. Chevrolet expects to be in the showrooms late next spring with a rear-engine sports car built on the low-priced Corvair chassis with a sleek, sloping rear end (called a fastback in Detroit). By then, the aggressive Pontiac Division also intends...
...regard to the amber flashing turn signal on the front of new U.S. cars, why not also eliminate the confusion of all red lights in the rear? It is sometimes difficult to tell if the driver ahead is signaling or just pumping his brakes. I think many rear-end collisions would be eliminated if the colors were different. What about green for the "running" lights, amber for the turn signal, and red for the stop light...
Lincoln-Mercury. Mercury also has a new intermediate, the Meteor. It shares the Fairlane's body shell, but its rear-end treatment (tubular fender ornaments culminating in a missile-like stop light) is similar to the new full-size Mercury Monterey. Except for a more stately front grill, Lincoln's handsome Continental remains unchanged...
...married Sarah Herman, another acting-school classmate. Failing to get work in the theater, they lived on unemployment insurance and on his odd jobs-social director at a Florida hotel, Arthur Murray dance instructor, Los Angeles cabbie (three rear-end collisions in four weeks). What started the Berman spiral upward was a job with Chicago's talented, improvising Compass Players (TIME, March 21), where, alongside his friends Mike Nichols and Elaine May, he developed his own style of comedy and began to grow into a great performer. He loathes being compared to other comedians, particularly the "sick" ones. Says...
Nobody really knows when the term "whiplash injury" originated, and U.S. insurance companies, which each year pay out substantial damages to supposed whiplash victims, undoubtedly wish it never had. The sudden backward snap of the head to which whiplash is ascribed generally happens in rear-end automobile collisions; these annually result in thousands of cases of alleged neck injury. Yet standard medical dictionaries do not even mention whiplash, and in the District of Columbia's Medical Annals, Washington Surgeon Francis D. Threadgill insists that it is usually only a synonym for "malingering and self-delusion...