Word: wheeling
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...nearly ten years in the swamps and bayous of the South. Hall would get to know the locals and start buying alligator hides from traders; at one point, he operated a tanning factory for more than a year. "The big traders would bring their skins to me in 18-wheel trucks," says Hall, "and we'd bust them on the spot. I know the real Crocodile Dundees, and I've arrested about half of them...
North's dream, however, suffered a nearly crippling collision. On Washington's Birthday weekend in 1964, North was driving home to New York with four friends. He was asleep in the back seat of the rented car they were traveling in when it plowed into an 18-wheel truck. The driver of the automobile was killed, and North suffered knee and back injuries so severe that his doctor initially thought he might never walk again. After three months in the hospital, North returned to Philmont, missing the rest of his first year at the academy. His greatest fear was that...
While filming The Color of Money and Top Gun, he proved a quick study in the pool hall and the cockpit. Now Tom Cruise, 24, has shifted gears again to test his learning curve on the auto racetrack. Cruise took the wheel of a Nissan 300 ZX turbo sports car last week while making his pro circuit racing debut at the Road Atlanta race course in Braselton, Ga. His wife of two months, Actress Mimi Rogers, cheered from the pit. So did his new pal and Money co-star, Paul Newman, 62, a veteran race-car driver who later took...
Those ever inventive Japanese automakers have come up with another innovation on their cars: back wheels that turn right and left, just like front wheels. Four-wheel steering, or 4WS, first appeared in Japan two years ago on Nissan's high-performance Skyline autos. Now an advanced version of 4WS is being offered to Japanese car buyers, by Honda on its latest Prelude two-door and by Mazda on its luxury Capella...
With 4WS, all four wheels of the auto move with the turn of the steering wheel. The arc of the rear wheels, though, is never more than 5 degrees, vs. 30 degrees for the front wheels. That is enough to improve maneuverability at low speeds. At high speeds, 4WS markedly reduces the risk of skidding when a driver changes lanes, for example...