Word: carli
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...available to the vast majority of U.S. youngsters, Garn notes. As calories have become more accessible and irresistible, the chances to work them off in healthy exercise have diminished. "In many of our great cities," he writes, "safe opportunities for strenuous play now scarcely exist . . . As suburbia expands . . . the car pool and the school bus reduce the energy expenditure, and the ranch house no longer provides calorie-expending stairs to climb...
...hard enough to teach teen-agers the merits of earning their own way, let alone have them subjected to the discouragement of tax collection on every penny. Warned the New York Times, only half humorously: If tax officials persist, they "may find that they are fostering juvenile delinquency, cutting car production, plunging parents into the captivity of their progeny...
Died. Melvin Horace Purvis, 56, wiry (about 130 lbs.) South Carolina lawyer who joined the FBI in 1927, chased car thieves in Texas, pursued minor thugs in Oklahoma, finally became chief investigator for the Chicago area and made the headlines when he bungled a 1934 Wisconsin showdown with Public Enemy John Dillinger (G-men shot two innocent men, killing one), but got Dillinger three months later in a trap outside a Chicago theater, also led the posse that shot down Pretty Boy Floyd; by his own hand (pistol); in Florence...
...medium-price divisions-Pontiac, Oldsmobile, Buick-are bringing out compact cars. The new models will not, despite the rumors, be deluxe versions of Chevy's Corvair, but slightly bigger, considerably more powerful cars with engines in front. All three will have a wheelbase of 112 inches, use the same body shell and many interchangeable parts. Buick and Olds will share the same engine, a scaled-down aluminum block V-8 that turns up 150 h.p.; Pontiac's engine will be a cast-iron, four-cylinder job, canted at a 45° angle, with an output of more than...
...industry's official statistician, R. L. Polk & Co., last week totted up the final figures for calendar 1959. Total new car registrations: 6,026,500 cars, for the third best year on record, topped only by 1955 (7,169,908) and 1950 (6,326,438). The top five...