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...lonely beach in Southern California. Seeing a pair of armed men approaching, the driver instinctively turned his ignition key to make a fast getaway. Nothing happened. Then, while the driver and his date were frantically buckling up, one mugger thrust his gun through the car's sunroof and relieved the lovers of their money...
...sliding sun roof. "It allows light and ventilation," says Norwood, "but shuts out dirt, noise and potential thieves." Until recently, demand had been too small for automakers to set up an assembly-line procedure for making sun roofs; they still send many cars to the seven-year-old American Sunroof Co. of Southgate, Mich., where craftsmen cut a hole in the roof and install a sliding steel panel. But the market is expanding so swiftly that in January American Motors began making sun roofs on its own assembly lines...
...find an issue has only spurred him to try harder. Each day he hops into a helicopter or chartered DC-3 to commute to the hustings, gives as many as six or seven speeches, in between riding from place to place in a motorcade, often standing in the open sunroof of a campaign car to flash his smile at bystanders. In the process, he has shed much of his computerlike coldness. Each evening he crawls from pub to pub, swigging stout, shooting darts and talking politics before flying back to London...
When summer vacation came, Makinen set out in a rented green sunroof Volkswagen for a trip through East Germany and Poland to Moscow. Nothing more was heard from Student Makinen until last week, when Moscow announced that he had been arrested...