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When the old Nash Motors Co. came out with seat belts as standard equipment in 1949, customers tore them out and cut them off with razor blades. Last week, as Studebaker became the first U.S. automaker now in business to make seat belts standard equipment, no one had any fear that motorists would once more lay hold of their razors. Finally convinced by safety authorities that seat belts can prevent many traffic deaths, U.S. motorists are buying them so fast that sales have risen threefold since 1960 to $63 million last year-and this year are running at double...
When his Boston Celtics are on the basketball floor, Coach Arnold ("Red") Auerbach, 45, sits hunched forward on the bench as if it were the edge of a razor blade, his face flickering between anguish and rage. He once punched a heckling rival club owner in the mouth, has nearly come to blows with innumerable referees, and by his own reckoning pays something like $400 a season in fines for arguing too much. But if no one has ever accused Auerbach of being a popular coach, no one questions his success. In twelve years under Auerbach, the Celtics have never...
...psychoanalyst, who prefers not to see his name in print, but to Samuel Johnson, 1709-84. Woody is his own Boswell and reports that he has an antique gold pocket watch, he sits on a Queen Anne chair and writes with a quill pen, shaves with a straight razor and decorates his apartment with English candleholders, snuffers, and leather-bound first editions. "What I need is a wig and breeches," he adds ambitiously...
Against the American Grain, by Dwight Macdonald'. In a series of engaging essays, a razor-witted critic hews an assortment of U.S. cultural pretensions down to size...
...introduction to the problems and the advantages of living in the new luxury barracks when I discovered that my neighbor was reusing the razor blades that I disposed of through the slot in the back of my medicine cabinet onto the bottom shelf...