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Some executives assert that the public is not interested in paying for products that reduce pollution. General Motors, for example, has just spent $50,000 to promote and test-market in Phoenix a $20 exhaust-emission control kit for pre-1968 models. Out of 334,000 owners of such cars in the area, only 528 bought the kit. (Chrysler, on the other hand, reports brisk sales of a similar kit for its cars...
...specialty is the hijacking of airplanes. "Without our consent, the other Arabs can do nothing, and we will never agree to a peaceful settlement. If the Arab countries now think they can gang up and make peace over our heads, they are mistaken. All we have to do is assert our power in one country and the rest will lose their resolve and start backsliding...
...signal from Hanoi that the Communists were more willing to talk? No direct signals, but third-party indications were that they wanted to see a top U.S. negotiator named. Will Bruce have anything new to offer? Well, let's review what we have already offered. Would Nixon categorically assert that he would never send U.S. troops back into Cambodia? The U.S. has no plans to send the troops back in, but he would not say that he would never do so under any circumstances...
...failed, he could support his family by fiddling on the streets of Paris. The same violin in Music appears again, in precisely the same pose except now seen from the rear, in an amusing portrait that Matisse painted in Nice-maybe of himself at his hotel window, practicing. Friends assert that the hotel banished Matisse to a remote back room so that his playing would not torture other guests...
...show raises another question. Apart from the proper protection of minors, does not the age-old tradition of the theater assert its inalienable if profane right to be pornographic...