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...these days. A bang and a tinkle in front of Harrods last week brought Salesman Patrick Ling charging out of his little Zephyr, "my mind full of evil thought," to deal with the blighter who'd bumped his bumper and smashed his tail light. The girl behind the wheel of the spiffy Reliant Scimitar just sat there, but her male companion suggested that Ling send the bill to Buckingham Palace, where the insurance would take care of it. The bird was Princess Anne, her companion a detective guardian. "What are you doing-teaching her to drive?" demanded Ling...
...their pain all the more acutely because, like wounded animals, they cannot articulate it. Think of Picasso's Guernica unfolding in slow motion and you have the image of these women dying. The evening ends with a jolly blare of music. The Black Angel and the Grey Lady wheel to the music-a Totentanz, the dance of death...
Death rate of naval personnel in motorcycle accidents increased by 29% in 1970. The cyclist is more vulnerable in collisions because he does not have the protection that an auto affords. Road conditions, skills, reflexes and operator training are all more critical in driving a two-wheel vehicle. As you say, it may be antisocial. We wish it were safer...
Companies that have adopted the four-day week have been rewarded by easier recruiting, lower turnover of scarce skilled workmen and less absenteeism. At the George H. Bullard Co. of Westboro, Mass., average absenteeism dropped from 6% of the work force to less than 1%. Says Jerry Goucher, a wheel finisher: "I don't have to lose money by leaving work to fish on opening day like the other guys have to do. Lately, I've been cramming in everything on Friday-dentists, doctors, shopping. Then we have Saturday and Sunday to go somewhere." As Jack Peterson...
...environmental and consumer safeguards. GM continued to show why such confidence is wrongly given when this December it had to be ordered by the Department of Transportation (with a little help from Ralph Nader) to notify the 250,000 owners of GM and Chevy pick-ups of defective wheel dises in 1960-65 models. GM throughout has maintained that the defect did not exist...