December 4 1973 THE Electromotion car company in Bedford, Massachusetts, has developed an eight-month backlog of orders for its $8,500 (£3,400) T-3 model electric car as motorists scramble to beat the oil shortage.
IF THERE were clauses in the unwritten, non-codified British constitution prohibiting black people or Jews from being king or queen of England, every political party in Ireland, north and south, would rush to condemn it (as they should, and I would be the first).