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Dirt on the windshield is seldom important. Far worse for the driver's safety is light reflected off the top of the dash board and back into the driver's eyes. Such reflections can be dangerously confusing Dr. Allen showed a photograph taken through the windshield of a car equipped with a light-absorbing black velveteen covering on its dashboard. A near by pedestrian was clearly visible. Another photo, taken after the velveteen was removed, glittered with reflections that hid the pedestrian from the driver...
...cars tested by Dr. Allen had bright chromium trim in the driver's held ot vision. Even small bits of brightwork, such as chromium windshield wipers or decorations on the dash, can reflect sun light and cause spots of glare. Attempts to express the space age in instrument panels end with the instruments poorly grouped. Their needles or other indicators are hard for many drivers to see Many new car models share a common feature: a hood that covers the instrument panel so that its lights will not reflect at night in a stylishly sloping windshield. Under many daytime...
...radical or they will not sell," he said. "Automobile owners are among the most conservative people in the world." Curtice himself was not. Reaching into all parts of G.M.'s sprawling operations, he was the prime mover behind the two-tone paint job, the wrap-around windshield, the hardtop convertible. Only rarely, as when he indulged in the chrome-splashing spree that hurt sales in the late 1950s, was he wrong. Right or wrong, he constantly admonished that "G.M. must always lead...
...military school. NBC's McKeever and the Colonel is about little boys in battle dress who wipe down their pack horses with windshield blades and sneak off to the movies during maneuvers. No one over ten with an IQ above 36 should care much for it, but it is good amusement for little boys and is on the air at 6:30 p.m. Also on NBC, Cartoonists Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera have now followed their prehistoric FHntstones with another family called The Jetsons, who live so far in the future that their school-aged kids learn terms like...
Traveler: I say to the man, "Fill it up," and while he is cleaning the windshield, very casually: "What's the talk out here about how Kennedy's doing in Washington?" He says, "Oh, you don't hear people talk much about it around here. What's the talk about Jack in Washington?" You wind up giving him a ten-minute analysis of the Washington scene. Bates: That is the classic example of how not to take a pulse. Has it ever occurred to you that you just...