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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...that simple, sometimes dangerous and remarkably maneuverable device-and improve it. Improve it? Well make it part of the highway culture, anyway. With a 1¼-h.p. motor attached at the rear, a hand-held throttle that can act as a kind of brake and a 12-oz. gas tank, the new Motoboards, as they're called, can move a rider at up to 50 m.p.h. and cruise at 20 m.p.h. for about half an hour. They are already selling well both in the U.S. and abroad. "The beauty of this thing, says Jim Rugroden, 28, who invented...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Living: Outboards for Skateboards | 1/22/1979 | See Source »

...editor of the Vineyard Gazette, denounced McDonald's as "a symbol of the asphalt-and-chrome culture." Warned Hough: "Its coming means that we will have succumbed at last to the megalopolis which we have dreaded." Last week the Vineyard Haven health board refused to issue a septic tank permit to the company. McDonald's retreated, for the moment at least. Said Jack Ochtera, the company's real estate manager for New England: "No one needs the aggravation of a Martha's Vineyard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Arch Enemies | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

...dawn, all are ready; we go up in a single movement. Alfonso is at the head of the flock. We fly straight south, over the top of the gas tank, over Lansdowne, down over Chester and I am with them. I'm wondering what is happening with my life. Will I ever wake up in my own bed again...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Flights of Fact and Fancy | 1/15/1979 | See Source »

Opposition to SALT already is impassioned and very well organized. Leading the attack is the Committee on the Present Danger, a blue-ribbon nonprofit think tank that was formed two years ago. Though it has only four full-time employees, its clout lies in the respect enjoyed by its 162 members, such as former Treasury Secretary C. Douglas Dillon, former Secretary of State Dean Rusk and AFL-CIO Secretary-Treasurer Lane Kirkland. Its principal SALT spokesman, Paul Nitze, Deputy Secretary of Defense under Lyndon Johnson and a SALT negotiator under Nixon, has an intimidating expertise on defense matters...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Why Moscow Stalled SALT | 1/8/1979 | See Source »

What about the case in which the Ford company was ordered to pay $128 million to a man whose Pinto gas tank exploded? (The punitive judgement was overturned on appeal...

Author: By Paul A. Attanasio, | Title: Casus Belli | 1/4/1979 | See Source »

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