Word: windshield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among U.S. show cars, the Corvette Mako Shark II, so new that it has yet to be tested, has such features as retractable windshield wipers, hinged roof and a louvered rear window that opens to let in air, closes to keep weather out. American Motors' AMX Dream Car uses a cantilevered roof to do away with corner posts, boasts 240° visibility, and makes a stab at bringing back the old rumble seat with a back bench that uses the swing-up rear window as a windscreen. With busy businessmen in mind, Chrysler turned its 1966 Imperial Crown coupe...
...compartments. One-fifth of the passenger fatalities result from being impaled by the steering wheel. The most dangerous place in the car is right next to the driver, the so-called death seat. Three-fifths of all passenger deaths are caused by striking the instrument panel, the roof, the windshield or its pillars, or being thrown from...
...slightly slower pace. At that rate, Shelby figured, each of the Mark Us would need new front disc brakes during the race. So his pit crews practiced until they could change both brake units and four tires, fill the sump, pump in 42 gal. of gas and clean the windshield...
...Windshield Factor. Adding to the problem was the fact that catastrophes occurred on top of an unusual rash of mere disasters. A Pennsylvania Railroad train derailment cost Travelers Insurance Co. $500,000. In the worst fire of the year, 53 men died in a missile-silo explosion at Searcy, Ark.; the entire insurance loss, amounting to almost $1,000,000, was borne by Aetna Life & Casualty Co. Most important, injuries and damage from auto accidents-which account for 40% of all casualty business-reached an alltime high. Not only were accidents more numerous, but they cost more; a smashed windshield...
...Central Park. Today, relocated in New York and remarried-to Actor Jason Robards Jr.-Bacall prefers to look forward. But, says a friend, "the past has a way of hounding Betty. She tries to look out the windshield, but there are always things there in the rearview mirror." Among the things are TV's endless Bogie-Bacall festivals. "Those movies," she says ruefully, "always come back to haunt me on that damn box." And there are the Bogie biographies, five released within the last year. "The paperback ones are written by hungry guys trying...