Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other engineering changes: ¶A new hydraulic steering mechanism, the "Hydraguide," which eliminates 80% of the pushing & pulling normally done by the driver, makes it possible to park at the curb with one finger on the wheel. ¶New shock absorbers which take the bumps out of the roughest ride. ¶Forced air cooling that cuts the wear & tear on brake linings. ¶A peppy new torque converter transmission, as good as Buick's Dynaflow or Oldsmobile's Hydra-Matic...
Dean Stockwell is Kim, the Little Friend of All the World. When he is saucy and conniving, he is almost convincing. But when he is serious, as in the mawkish Wheel-of-Life discussions with his Lama, he becomes a male Margaret O'Brien. In addition to his point-scoring activities, Errol Flynn also swings through a few harems as a red-bearded horse trader seeking recreation...
...special interest in placing a bet at the moment, he could wander down to the stable area along the Susquehanna, watch such thoroughbreds as Exterminator or Sir Barton grazing under the trees. After the races there was the leisurely ride home, or perhaps a turn at the roulette wheel or dice table in what was apt to be, in race season, a relaxed and hospitable town...
...Balance Wheel was plainly intended to be read as a political-economic allegory. Veteran Caldwell fans may ignore such implications, and read the book for the same reason they listen to soap opera: to get the dirt, dished by an expert, on a dozen or more private lives...
...process, she occasionally produces the same kind of little home truths that a good soap-opera scripter turns out. Readers who find it worthwhile to wade through 496 pages of Novelist Caldwell's fast typing in search of such finds will undoubtedly set sales of The Balance Wheel to rising as merrily as those of its twelve predecessors...