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...standard Pontiac will change its headlight pattern from the present four abreast to vertical pairs, one light directly above the other on each side...
...crooked cops carefully surveyed the one-story, yellow brick building during the day. A few nights later, three policemen jimmied the aluminum front door. A police car stopped across the street as lookout; one of the three burglars remained by the store window to watch for a flashing-headlight danger signal. At the safe, his two companions worked with a carborundum wheel, cooled it with cartons of milk. In 90 minutes the safe was cracked...
Wirges and the Democrat carefully cased the situation before declaring war on the city-county machine-a fight for which Morrilton's other weekly, the Headlight (circ. 1,600), had no stomach at all. When Democrat editorials began hammering at Hawkins and his gang, Headlight Editor Earle Haynes maintained the courteous silence of a man who has been "selected" three times: once as city recorder, once as alderman, most recently as Morrilton mayor (to replace the incumbent, who resigned because of ill health...
Chief change in the new Cadillac is an eminently sensible innovation: a "cornering light" mounted on the side of each front fender just to the rear of the headlight. When the driver flicks his turn indicator at night, the cornering light floods the area into which he is turning with a wide, low arc of light. Otherwise, like most 1962s, the new Cadillac is simply a sleeker version of the 1961 model...
...three years to perfect it. When he returned. Harvard gave him a laboratory to work in, but restless Din Land passed up a degree, left school to make his polarizers and carry on research. His chief aim was to sell Detroit on a system of polarized auto windshields and headlight lenses that would take the glare out of night driving. The industry never accepted the idea, but Land has not yet abandoned hope...