Word: rearview
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...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...
George Romney, LL.D., Governor of Michigan. He is one American leader who believes that vision is to be found by looking through the windshield rather than into the rearview mirror...
Clad in his cumbersome space suit and connected to Gemini by a white, 25-ft. oxygen and communications cord, Cernan methodically began his work. He attached a rearview mirror to the docking bar near Gemini's nose so that Stafford could watch and photograph him through a forward-facing window while he maneuvered near the aft end of the craft. Just behind the hatch, he clamped a 16-mm. movie camera into place...
...Central Park. Today, relocated in New York and remarried-to Actor Jason Robards Jr.-Bacall prefers to look forward. But, says a friend, "the past has a way of hounding Betty. She tries to look out the windshield, but there are always things there in the rearview mirror." Among the things are TV's endless Bogie-Bacall festivals. "Those movies," she says ruefully, "always come back to haunt me on that damn box." And there are the Bogie biographies, five released within the last year. "The paperback ones are written by hungry guys trying...