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...generation of enthusiasts is currently engaged in a polite argument over the relative merits of various wheeled mounts. One faction, for example, favors the 18-in.-wheel minibike, which, according to its advocates, is more maneuverable than the 27-in. English model that others prefer...
Hard times, Morrill explains, keep people off the roads. The increase in unemployment, for example, means that fewer workers are fighting their way through accident-prone rush-hour traffic. Those who do get behind the wheel tend to drive more cautiously than usual and do not take as many long trips. A survey last year of the American Automobile Association's 14 million members showed that the number driving their cars on at least five out-of-town trips declined 20% between 1968 and 1970. The recession has also influenced U.S. drinking, which is involved in half...
With a tug on a cable, the $12.9 million lunar rover folded slowly out of Falcon's side. Its hollow, wire-mesh wheels snapped into place, and the moon car was lowered to the ground. Like most earthly vehicles the rover had a problem: the front-wheel steering did not work. Nonetheless, a 25-yard test drive showed that it was ready to go with its back wheels steering. After a motherly reminder from Mission Control ("Okay, Dave, remember to buckle up for safety"), the astronauts clambered aboard, strapped themselves into place, pushed the control stick forward and moved...
LIKE Shakespearean wraiths, liveried figures stalk the night-draped battlements, as drum rolls and trumpets echo to the sound of marching below. "Officers call!" barks the adjutant, and eight black-coated officers, swords tight against their shoulders, wheel in close formation across a floodlit field. "Sound attention!" and they come, the main body of six platoons, surging from beneath a darkened arcade. With all the pomp, panoply and flair that can be mustered, the most brilliantly executed military parade in the U.S. is under way. The spectacle is the weekly Friday-night retreat at the Marine barracks of Washington...
...Party and urged that the U.S. make an early accommodation with it. Had this been done, they contend-and many observers agree-the U.S. might have been spared two wars-in Korea and Indochina. Drummed out of the service at that time for their views, they now see the wheel of U.S. policy come ironically full circle under Nixon...