Word: windshield
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...injured Tuesday night when a police cruiser chasing a fleeing auto thief smashed into her small Triumph sports car at the intersection of Harvard and Dana Streets. The collision hurled her through the windshield and 20 feet down the road...
...enjoyed an occasional tete-a-tete with a well-dressed, soft-spoken Courier reporter. (Exception: A team of reporters covering the first civil rights demonstration in Ft. Deposit, not far from Selma, were surrounded by white mobs twice; a country voting examiner smashed an ax handle through their car windshield; and five carloads of toughs followed them out of town.) A drugstore owner in Linden bought a copy of the paper from two reporters, remarking, "Course, I make up my own mind, but I've heard from people I respect--sheriffs and all--that this is a Communist newspaper...
...Khan and his uncle, Sadruddin, have the back and side windows of their Mini-Coopers done in inky black. So do Greek Snipping Scion Alex Goulandris, Actor Albert Finney and Beatle George Harrison. Fellow Beatle John Lennon's Rolls is completely blacked out except for the windshield-despite the impairment to vision. So is Prince Philip's experimental Ogle sports...
Died. Ormond E. Hunt, 83, auto engineer, who in 1923 designed the first General Motors Chevrolet to compete successfully with Ford's Model T, incorporating such features as automatic windshield wipers, an electric horn and a longer, more stylish body, was duly awarded a vice-presidency by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., and continued to serve G.M. as a company director and technical troubleshooter, most notably during World War II, when he played a major role in converting auto production lines to tanks, trucks and planes; of cancer; in Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit...
...Dash panel knobs must be so situated that a safety-belted driver can reach them; at the same time they must be out of impact range. Ignition keys, for instance, are to be moved out of possible contact with a driver's knee. Cigarette lighters and windshield-washer buttons are to be spaced away from headlight switches to prevent an accidental turn-off of headlights. All of this has already been done on '67 cars...