Word: windshield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Madison, Wis., Inventor Bruce B. Mohs, 35, has built over two years at a cost of some $15,000 in parts alone a prototype of a plastic-covered, steel-bodied car called the Ostentatienne Opera Sedan. It boasts a 270° windshield visibility, hidden rails in the sides to protect its four passengers (who enter through a single swing-up rear door), cantilevered roof beams that act as skid rails in case of a rollover, and seats that swing in a collision, placing body weight against the seat instead of a narrow seat belt. Mohs, who claims that the sedan...
...Time and Newsweek, explaining that her husband was wearing dark clothes and "a favorite pair of brown gloves, that the road was narrow and badly lighted, and that the car brushed past him at approximately 45 m.p.h. bruising his shoulder and glancing the side of his head at windshield height, causing instant death." Like Jay in Agee's A Death in the Family, there wasn't a mark on him, but suddenly he was dead...
...longer wheelbase, both of which go a long way toward eliminating the car's boxy appearance. Coming in for the biggest changes at Chevrolet is the Corvette. Rakishly restyled, with a body 7 in. longer than present models', the '68 Corvette has high-backed seats, hideaway windshield wipers and jet-age gizmos like the "spoiler"-a raised airflow deflector that adds a decorative touch to the rear deck, also helps reduce the danger of spin-outs at high speeds...
...that the only lives parachutists risk are their own. But that is a dubious assumption. At least it is to the Airline Pilots Association, which grimly speculated last week on what would happen if some day a skydiver plummeting gaily down from 20,000 ft. should slam into the windshield, wing or tail assembly of a passenger-laden airliner...
...Some thought Rockwell better dead, and several made the attempt. "Stand next to me," he was fond of quoting. "I'm bulletproof." But as he backed his Chevrolet away from Arlington's Econ-o-wash laundry last week, two bullets fired by a rooftop sniper drilled the windshield. Sprinkled with soap flakes, the dying Nazi staggered from his car. His meager wash was inside the laundry, and his last words were to a 60-year-old grandmother. Said white supremacy's champion: "I forgot my bleach...