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...their wives are slenderer than they really are while mothers assume their daughters are too fat. Teenagers, of course, decide that the clothes their parents picked for them are fresh from the Dark Ages. Mod shops like "Man at Ease" in Chicago report a lively post-holiday business in gear bought with cash derived in part from the returns at Marshall Field and Carson, Pirie Scott...
...picks up in the antique shops around St. Louis' Gaslight Square. A brace of oxygen tanks perches on the shoulders of the center figure, while a shower nozzle, stainless-steel tubing and a ski cable festoon the fronts of the other two. The apparatus eerily suggests scuba gear, gas masks, or an astronaut's breathing equipment-items necessary, in Trova's view, to habilitate man for "an alien atmosphere...
...guns, helmets, boy-size bazookas and similar military attractions unsold upon the shelves. "People are sickened by anything painted in olive drab," said Harvey Cole, a wholesale distributor in the Seattle area. There was, added a competitor, just one exception. "Along comes G.I. Joe and his endless military gear and the parents rush the stores. You explain...
...gearshift indicators of automatic transmissions, "drive" and "reverse" must be separated by a neutral position between to ensure that cars will not be accidentally shifted into the wrong gear. The forward speed henceforth must also include a "braking effect" at 25 m.p.h. or less when a driver takes his foot off the gas pedal...
...Scorpion all-weather jets, Northrop went through a severe slump in the late 1950s. To keep the company going, Northrop President Thomas V. Jones, 46, pushed the company into electronics and aerospace projects; Northrop now produces such diverse hardware as missile-tracking equipment, Gemini recovery systems and navigation gear for Polaris subs...