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Amid a DeMillean display of press-agentry, the Bricklin car-product of cowboy-booted, Indian-beaded Millionaire Malcolm Bricklin, the first American to start an auto manufacturing business from scratch in 28 years (TIME, May 27)-made its official debut last week at Manhattan's elegant Four Seasons restaurant. Though its stress is on safety, it turned out to be a sporty-looking, high-priced ($6,500) vehicle with several unusual features. Its gull-wing doors need only a 10-in. clearance to open fully, minimizing the risk of side swipes. Polyurethane bumpers are designed to absorb the shock...
...harder to do now, because it's harder to make money." Universities trying to avoid wasting all their resources during the summer have tended lately to set up a summer term of the regular school year, like Yale did last year, instead of starting separate summer schools from scratch...
...Your article on police corruption in American cities [May 6] reactivates an age-old itch I cannot scratch. I recently retired from the Los Angeles police department after 27 years. From the early '50s. when William H. Parker became chief, I could proclaim with pride at social gatherings that I was a Los Angeles police officer...
...quixotic ventures that a young business man could dream up, the farthest-out would seem to be making automobiles. It has been 28 years since an American started an auto-manufacturing business from scratch - and that was a disastrous flop for Henry Kaiser. So meet Don Quixote - in the form of flamboyant Malcolm Bricklin, 35, a Phoenix, Ariz., resident who wears studded denims and bedecks himself with silver-and-turquoise jewelry...
...this year's Crimson combine might have the credentials to top the old show. Already Harvard has risen from the ash-heap to scratch and claw its way into the NCAA District I playoffs, and win its fourth-straight EIBL title...