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...part of almost every comedian's patter. For employees at Ford's Lincoln-Mercury Division, which produced the car, it only hurt when audiences laughed. Bedeviled by bad timing and uneven management, the whole division had become a career junkyard for faltering executives and a rugged boot camp for beginners. Beyond Edsel, Lincoln-Mercury's models offered little individuality. They were nothing but larger, costlier Fords. Sales fell so low that many Lincoln-Mercury dealers were forced to depend on used-car sales...
...M.S.I, gains do not mean that Fascism is running rampant over the boot, or even that the center-left balance of power has been significantly altered. Most of the balloting, involving nearly one-fifth of Italy's 37 million voters, took place in the conservative south; it almost certainly would have presented a vastly altered picture if it had included the large industrial, traditionally leftist cities, of the north. Nonetheless, the show of neo-Fascist strength seemed to be a vigorous protest against the wave of strikes and disorders, the rising unemployment and the sluggish pace of reforms that...
...announcement, the White House intended-as one aide put it -to administer a "kick in the tail" to negotiators at the fourth round of SALT talks in Vienna. The diplomats, who are to recess shortly, were only too happy to get the boot; when they reconvene in Helsinki this summer, they will at last have something solid to discuss. One serious obstacle to an arms-limitation treaty had been overcome. In past talks, the U.S. had insisted upon putting a ceiling on both offensive and defensive nuclear weapons; it was especially fearful of the huge, 25-megaton Soviet S59 intercontinental...
...water Hogarth looks rather as if he is skiing. Brandishing a pair of poles stuck into plastic buckets filled with polystyrene, he pushes first one boot and then the other along the surface of the water in a flowing movement...
...fine song to dance to, filled with those old Chuck Berry-style guitar licks that sound so good on a car radio. Fortunately the vocal is somewhat garbled so that one can avoid listening to the lyrics which, besides being rife with the Stones' usual sexism, are racist to boot...