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Show Miracle at Your Fingertips Alladin, the boy who rubbed the magic lamp, had nothing on you. You too can stretch out a finger or even a toe and command a genie that controls tremendous stores of energy, the horsepower that drives your family automobile. auto-mobile. Maybe you never thought it just that way. But you are transported, at your slightest whim, to shopping centers, cen-ters, stores in distant cities, schools, supermarkets, offices of-fices and theatres of your own area to all the conveniences conven-iences of the modern world. Your "magic lamp" is the tiny, giant-powered self-starter self-starter invented 40 years ago by a young genie (or genius, gen-ius, if you like) named Charles F. Kettering. Before it existed as standard equipment on new cars, starting was a chore beyond the strength of most women a chore dangerous to most men, if they were not ex tremely careful. Small wonder that the scientists of the nation have several times recently honored Kettering for this and many other contributions to the science of everyday living, liv-ing, through the automobile. Yet most motorists take that "magic lamp" so much for granted that they give it no help at all and it sometimes some-times needs help. This is the time of year when that small miracle begins be-gins to need help in the form of precautions those precautions pre-cautions that mean easier winter driving. One automotive engineer puts it this way: "The self-starter took the druggery out of driving and put the automobile into daily life. But you've got to give that starter a chance to work by making it possible for your car to start readily." |