Word: tailing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...territory. Hertz uses it to symbolize its dominance in the car-rental field, and Britain's Rootes Motors has just brought out a new $3,400 sports car called the Sunbeam Tiger, with the slogan "Grab a Tiger by the Wheel." Gimmick manufacturers are selling countless cloth tiger tails, priced from 18? to $1, to department stores. Humble dealers have sold thousands of tiger-tail tips to customers, most of whom clip them onto gas tanks. This fall Humble is ready to introduce napkins, clothing, and trick-or-treat bags with the tiger theme on all of them...
...more recently refined and popularized by Pontiac, has spread to the new Chrysler and to American Motors and Ford models. Perhaps the ultimate rectilinear styling has been achieved by the new Mercury, whose squared-off front bumper gives it a cubed look. Even the Cadillac, which abandons its tail fins for the first time in 18 years, has replaced its usual side-panel sculpturing with the slab look...
...lasted 55 minutes be fore the commandos escaped safely out to sea and back to "a secret base somewhere in the Caribbean." His own group suffered no losses, Artime claimed; but he could not be sure about Castro casualties. "We have shown," said Artime, "that we can pull the tail of the Russians...
...even his mother would have readily recognized India's Home Minister Gulzarilal Nanda. Sitting in a small unmarked car parked at the edge of New Delhi's grain market, Nanda was wearing dark glasses, a long coat buttoned to his chin, and a turban whose tail covered his lower face. Thus disguised, he warily watched hundreds of Communist-led marchers demonstrating against India's food prices, which have risen 22% in the last 18 months -almost as much as the price rise over the previous ten years...
Everyone in California seems to talk about smog, but no one has been able to do much about it-until recently. Aware that the eye-irritating, lung-smothering fumes are caused largely by the tail pipe exhaust from the state's exploding auto population of 7,200,000, legislators passed a law requiring all new cars to be equipped with a state-approved exhaust control system by the beginning of the 1966 model year. Four independent manufacturers rushed in to capture the potentially huge market, spent some $20 million to develop their own antismog devices, got state approval...