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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While two of the men are attracted to the two complex and enigmatic city girls they meet, and a third to the roulette wheel, Hari, the cricket star, concerns himself with a local girl whom the other men jokingly call "Miss India"--they use the English phrase. Her stunning beauty is so captivating, in Hari's eyes--and in ours--that we feel a whole country has been raped by the city boy when she suddenly appears as she really is: a pathetic pauper, drunk and asking for more, begging for work and selling herself to Hari...
There was a time when the automobile responded without question or objection to the turn of a key, the gentle pressure of a foot, a twist of the steering wheel and the occasional injection of vital fluids. Those freewheeling days, alas, have passed. As a result of the nation's commendable concern with driver safety, cars are no longer the mute mistresses of yore but have become instead the harridans of the highways, yowling at passengers and refusing orders until they are properly buckled...
...belts under any circumstances have a host of ingenious ways of deceiving the interlock. Some start the car by leaning in the window and turning the ignition key (with no weight on the front seat, the starter will kick over). Others accomplish the same deception by grasping the steering wheel and pulling themselves up while turning the key. But with both these techniques, as soon as the driver sits down, the buzzer will go off-unless he fastens his seat belt...
Sebring-Vanguard, Inc., of Sebring, Fla., hopes to be first out. It has beefed up a four-wheel golf-cart chassis, bolted on a snub-nosed auto body, and named the resulting vehicle CitiCar. Four prototypes are presently scooting around at speeds of up to 30 m.p.h. over distances of 50 miles before needing a seven-hour recharge from household current. The car seats two people and consumes a little more than 1 kw-h per mile (cost: about 2½? at current utility rates in Florida). Twenty-five hundred CitiCars are expected to come off the assembly line...
...since the early '40s has roller skating enjoyed such a boom: an estimated 18 million teen-agers and young adults have discovered the delights of eight-wheel drive. Schools across the country are scheduling skating classes and turning gymnasiums into makeshift rinks. The Parsippany-Troy Hills, N.J., school system recently bought 1,800 pairs of skates for student use. New Mexico State University in Las Cruces even gives credits for skating, and the Boy Scouts have introduced a roller merit badge. But the majority of skaters have been lured by the garish, ultramodern rinks that are becoming as much...