Word: rearview
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...windshield wipers, right-hand-side chrome strip, hubcaps, a set of jumper cables, a gas can, a can of car wax, and the left rear tire (the other tires were too worn to be interesting). Nine hours later, random destruction began when two laughing teen-agers tore off the rearview mirror and began throwing it at the headlights and front windshield...
Peek at the Mirror. As gratifying as its own sales were, Detroit still peeked nervously in the rearview mirror at its foreign competitors, which have been accounting for about 10% of all U.S. sales. In fact, if it were not for a disturbing surge of imports, which will reach a sales level of well over 900,000 this year, a new auto-industry record would be merely an outside possibility rather than a virtual certainty. In any case, many of this year's buyers, whether they prefer U.S. or foreign models, plainly went into the market for the same...
...agencies screen it before test audiences and run a series of checks and quintuple checks that are as elaborate as those for a space shot. Lie detectors, word association, sentence completion and the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory are among a few of the methods used. Foote, Cone & Belding lugs rearview projectors to homes to get verdicts. Kenyon & Eckhardt plays TAG (Target Attitudinal Group), a method of extensive indirect questioning...
...Percy is winning the votes of many Negroes irked by the Democratic machine's resistance to their demands. Hulking, white-thatched Douglas, 74, emphasizes his past contributions to such legislation as social security and federal aid to education. Says Percy, 47: "My opponent views the future through a rearview mirror." The G.O.P. challenger-whose campaign has swiftly recovered momentum lost during a three-week moratorium imposed after the murder of his daughter Valerie in September-comes down hard on the immediate, largely non-ideological issues. Percy emphasizes inflation, tight money and racial disorders, condemns Douglas' you-never...
...make up for higher labor and other costs but mostly covered new safety features. The two-door Ford Fairlane, for instance, was priced at $2,239.81 for 1966. To this, $23.50 is added for "product improvement," meaning dual brakes, collapsible steering shaft, safety door latches, improved suspension, breakaway rearview mirror. Safety features that were optional on the '66 Fairlane now become standard at a cost of $70.46. They include a nonglare mirror ($16.86), retractable seat belts ($14.53), uniform-pressure tires ($7.90), padded pillars ($18.22) and two-speed windshield washers and wipers ($12.95). The total addition of $93.96 brings...