Word: seat
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...Spence, 37, who lives in The Bronx and runs a delivery service, "It's just a fad. You stop in a gas station for gas, and the man gives you a flag." He has one on his car window and several in a cigar box on the front seat. In Detroit, a college student explained his windshield emblem: "The police like this sort of thing, and maybe, if I'm speeding and they see the flag, they won't pull me over." Cartoonist Al Capp, whose Li' l Abner comic strips have been waxing increasingly patriotic...
...last week leaving the Dominican Republic, Rockefeller leaned back in his seat and ruminated about his mission. "The disillusionment is very real," he said of the nations he had covered. "Blame must be equally accepted throughout the Western Hemisphere. We can't cover it up. You have no idea how much we are telling these people what to do and how to do it. But there are also forces at work that do not want to see us closer together. It is very important that there be understanding that these forces do exist and that all is not well...
...illustration was almost a duplicate of the Northeast ad; it showed a slippered, pillowed, fur-wrapped executive in a plane seat about to attack his meal. A well-received Hertz ad, showing a weary traveler arriving in a strange city, was copied closely for an RCA announcement of "an international terminal for people who hate to travel...
...sports-car aficionados, the sinuous lines and throaty snarl of a Ferrari are the ultimate symbols of automotive sex appeal. Even Fiat Chairman Giovanni Agnelli, a man who can afford the fin est, drives a custom-built $50,000 Ferrari that has the driver's seat centered between two passengers' seats. His car can go 180 m.p.h., but Agnelli wants more; now he intends to add the entire Ferrari company to his growing Fiat organization. A merger announcement last week said that "the current relationship of technical collaboration will be trans formed during the year into equal participation...
...turned away both suitors, though he did agree to design the engine for Fiat's Dino Spider sports car. Since then, however, the prancing black horse of Modena, the longstanding insignia of Ferrari, has worn few winner's laurels. So far this year, Ferrari's single-seat Formula 1 cars have broken down in three major races - Monte Carlo, the Grand Prix of Spain and of South Africa. The laborious production of about 700 handmade cars a year - which sell for an average $12,000 each in Italy-can no longer sustain the rising cost of racing...