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Poet, author, former United States Senator from Minnesota and candidate for the presidency, Eugene McCarthy note tires in Hauiin Hollow, Woodcille.
car she had been driving had a weakness in its rear axel, which condition might lead to the loss of a rear wheel. The manufacturer assured her that if this happened, only minor body damage would result. She wrote asking whether the damage would be to her body or to the car’s body. She received no reply.
Before moving into the foreign field, I consulted persons who read the automobile magazines, the automotive pages of the daily press and to some who owned foreign cars: Swedish Volvos, German Volkwagens and BMW’s (The mercedes was beyond me) and the owners of Japanese made cars. Weighing all of this advice, I decided to make my first move among the Japanese models.
Since I was testing, I decided to start at the top of the line, or near it, and work down. The salesman, knowing my hesitation about buying a foreign car, told me not to make a rash or hurried judgement, but to drive the test car for several days.
I was taken aback at my first look at the dash board. The number of indicators, buttons, flashing lights and other devices which I could not identify was intimidating. The board looked like the control panel on a supersonic airplane. The seat was close fitting. My knees touched the steering wheel. I sympathized with astronauts like John Glenn, who circled the earth for days in
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