Word: steams
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...less noxious than the internal-combustion engine. When the annual auto show opened in Manhattan last week, the Petersen Publishing Co. (Motor Trend, Hot Rod) gave visitors a look at a racy, wedge-shaped car that may signal just such a breakthrough in automotive design. Its source of power: steam...
...Steam? Shades of yesteryear! Gliding silently down the streets of early 20th century America, the Stanley Steamer left a wake of admiring glances and a slight whiff of kerosene. Buffs still speak with awe of the day in 1907 when a streamlined Steamer literally left the ground during a Florida test, hitting a speed of nearly 200 m.p.h. Trouble was, the old steamers took half an hour to get the pressure up and used water at so prodigious a rate that they had to stop for refills every few miles. They also had bulky boilers that blew up from time...
Coiled Tubing. The new steamer, a brainchild of William Lear, developer of the Lear Jet, supposedly has none of the liabilities of the old. It is powered by an external-combustion motor (which burns fuel outside the cylinders), uses yards of coiled tubing instead of an old-fashioned steam boiler and a special chemical preparation (to prevent freezing) instead of water. The fluid is sealed in, so it can't boil away. It is superheated to vapor by a burner that, according to Lear, "can burn anything from ground camel dung to high-grade gasoline"-although he recommends kerosene...
...smaller second motor-a plain steam turbine-will power the car's auxiliary systems and cut the time required to fire the boiler to 15 seconds or so. Although Lear's car has not been road tested (the auxiliary motor is not completed), the main power plant has been "run in," and Lear claims that it can generate up to 500 h.p. More important, since the fuel used to fire the boiler is burned rather than exploded (as it is in a gas engine) the car will leave practically no products of incomplete combustion behind to pollute...
...latest American idea has impeccable statistics. The skin stretches tight across her frame; one more inch, it seems, and she would burst like a succulent mango. Her measurements are 37-22-35; she bounces when she runs, she has legs that won't quit, and steam forms on the windows when she enters a room. Naturally, as she told TIME Correspondent Jon Larsen, she wants to be an actress. "I know the whole idea of a sex goddess wanting to be an actress is camp, but that is what I want...