Word: wheel
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Last week Christine rebelled for the fourth furious time. Walking along Mount Vernon's Lincoln Avenue one afternoon, she noted a red Chevrolet parked with ignition off but unlocked. Explained Christine afterward: "I just felt I had to break the law." She broke it by sliding behind the wheel, driving the car onto the Hutchinson River Parkway and heading south toward New York City. At a toll station, the same cop who had stopped her the first time as a runaway recognized Christine...
Feel Sharp, Drive Sharp. In Paramus, N.J., despite his plea that there was no law against it, Theodore Hildebrandt Jr. was ticketed for careless driving after cops caught him driving with the wheel in one hand, a razor in the other, and blobs of lather on his face...
After World War II, Ferdinando Innocefoti set out to put Italians on two wheels. From his plant near Milan, he began to roll two-passenger Lambretta motor scooters off the line for Italians looking for zippy but cheap (then $240, 100 miles per gallon) transportation. Now the world's No. 2 scooter producer (170,000 a year, behind Italy's Vespa), Ferdinando Innocenti has raised his sights to four wheels. Occasion: a deal to produce a Lambretta version of West Germany's four-passenger, four-wheel Goggomobil...
Metal Spare Tire. Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. has developed a flat, rubber-rimmed metal spare tire that takes up little room in the trunk, can easily be bolted on the hub over a flat tire by raising the wheel off the pavement with a jack. The motorist can drive as far as 100 miles on the tire at speeds of up to 45 m.p.h...
...group faces a landscaped plaza decorated with colored fountains and lit by a splendid illuminating system. Into the passenger buildings are packed modern supermarket-like facilities to speed travelers on their way: escalators to carry passengers from floor to floor, 32 special customs check-out counters to which passengers wheel their luggage in marketlike pushcarts, enclosed arcades that enable passengers of each overseas flight to go through the port without getting mixed up with domestic passengers. Around the new terminal buildings will spring up a whole network of individual U.S. airline terminals for domestic passengers that will eventually cover...