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...show was on Europe's new breed of luxury compacts. Having already lured millions of Europeans into cars designed above all for economy, Europe's automakers are now copying Detroit in an effort to get their customers to trade up to more expensive cars. The bait is a whole new line of small cars that feature such attractions as more lavish interiors, increased acceleration and crisper styling, and cost $200 to $300 more than economy models...
...supply and repair the Soviet snoop ships, eliminate the need for their long trips home. The equipment required to maintain this fleet can be used just as well to service submarines and torpedo boats. Said New York's Republican Senator Kenneth Keating: "If we fall for this new bait, we will be the biggest suckers of them...
...third approach is the closest to being usefully accurate, but like the first and second it is outrageously general. Granted that Mr. Passman's interrogation of aid officials is intended more to bait the State Department than to obtain information, it is still fair to say that the Administration has failed so far to point out convincingly that the reasons for foreign assistance to one country or another are highly specific. Principally the economic aid program wants to develop technocratic and fairly apolitical classes to supplant, gradually and delicately, the frequently irresponsible politicians and stubborn elites that now control poor...
...Maronites are one of 14 Eastern Christian churches that are in doctrinal union with Rome, although they have their own customs, liturgical languages and ritual practices. Maronites trace their origin back to the 5th century monks of Bait-Marun, who, from a fortress-monastery dedicated to St. Maron, upheld the faith against heretics. Although isolated from other Christian groups by Islam's triumph in the East, the Maronites always maintained their loyalty to the Pope; when the knights of the First Crusade landed in the Middle East, Maronites were there to help them set up camp. After the Saracen...
Lured by the same artistic bait, Sir Ralph Richardson, Jason Robards Jr. and Dean Stockwell also agreed to work for less. Landau saved further by eliminating the expensive teams of scriptwriters who customarily turn a theater classic into unrecognizable hokum. Last week Landau, who has long been outraged by Hollywood's multimillion-dollar spending to produce supercolossal flummery, premiered his film at the Cannes Festival with the announcement that it had cost only...