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American Motors was the first to snap back at Mackie. Said President Romney: "In the matter of compact-car safety, 400 major U.S. insurance companies do not agree with Mr. Mackie. They offer a 10% lower rate for compact cars. Such compact factors as relative power, headlight and seating arrangement, etc., do not differ significantly [from the big cars]. The big-size differential is in the elimination of extensive front and rear overhang, which reduce vision and decrease handling ease. As to long-range car use and tax revenue, the compacts have greatly stimulated the automobile business...
...their feet. Gosha, the Russian bear, came on for the finale to ride a bicycle, toss a few somersaults, wrestle gently with his trainer and balance ponderously on parallel bars. Then the lights went out, and Gosha steered a sputtering motorcycle around the arena by the glow of the headlight alone. As the Brazilians stamped, jumped, clapped and screamed "Bravo!" for a full three minutes, Gosha modestly waved...
...little hesitant to identify one of the cars on the cover. It's the grey one with one headlight on the fender, the other on the hood. Is it foreign...
Right the Second Time. In Milwaukee, Mrs. Marion Murphy, 32, outraged when a cop stopped her for doing 40 in a 30-m.p.h. zone, jumped behind the wheel again, took off so fast that tire-sprayed gravel broke a squad car headlight, accelerated to 50 in a 25-m.p.h. zone, told the officer when stopped again: "Now you have something to arrest...
...northwest shoulder of the continent, the bone-weary drivers struck out into the barrens of the "Never Never Land." Talcum-fine red dust blinded them, and tired eyes tricked them into braking their cars for no reason at all; strange, unearthy shapes seemed to dance across their headlight beams. This is kangaroo country, and the long-necked leapers chased cars down the road at speeds up to 40 m.p.h. One Japanese entry, a Toyopet Crown de Luxe, skidded off the road after a kangaroo bounced on its motor hood, dented a fender and smashed a headlight. Said Driver Kojiro Kondo...