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...Bargain Bait. Prime reason for the multiplication of models is that Ford, Chrysler, General Motors and Studebaker-Packard have all decided to introduce "intermediate" models bigger than their compacts but smaller than their standard cars. In addition, virtually every make will have a "pizazz" model (TIME, July 21) to satisfy the public's craving for bucket seats and floor-mounted manual gearshifts. All this diversity worries the automakers because it shaves their profits with higher manufacturing costs. Yet they are racing headlong into it in the hope that with a year of frank experimentation they can find...
...unsold cars are expected to be down to 655,000, v. 888,000 last year. And only 545,000 of the September stocks will be 1961-none too many to suit the dealers, who like to have a few of the previous year's models left as bargain bait for customers who do not like the new styles...
...book hunt are well advised to adopt the following rule: the younger the child, the better the books that are available. Books for tots are usually splashed with color, well designed, and sometimes contain surprising riches of fun and wonder. Older children would be better off kicking the kiddy-bait habit and graduating to Huckleberry Finn. A sampling of the season's best offerings for small fry and a few distinctive items for older children...
...civil servant acting impartially under guidance from international policy-making organs constitutes nothing less than an attack upon the executive capacity of any international organization for effective action." In the interests of peace, the U.S. would continue with the negotiations but Russia would soon have to fish or cut bait. To make that point clear, the U.S. and Great Britain last week asked the U.N. to debate the "critical situation" caused by the Geneva deadlock at the General Assembly session beginning in September...
...Governor William F. Quinn fired the entire board, appointed a new one headed by Hawaiian Pineapple Co.'s energetic President Herbert C. Cornuelle. Things began to move a bit. Though still without a plant of its own, the center scoured Asia for students, snapped up Fulbright rejects. The bait: two-year scholarships, valued at $9,000, including transportation, books, board and room, $50 a month spending money, and a two-month study tour of the mainland. When ground was broken last spring for the first center building, Lyndon Johnson himself jetted in to announce that "the concept...