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...closer; my camera purred as I weaved. A large crowd had gathered in front of the Union and everybody stretched for that magic glimpse. A solitary fire engine embellished in excitement came into view. It looked out of place in this rainyday afternoon grey, but who was I to brag? Supporting members of the Hasty Pudding mingled in costumed delight. The Harvard Band tooted about. Ballons bearing her name bubbled above the wet streets, ready-mades for the collector of inflated history. Just swell, swelling...
Each of the Big Three had something special to brag about. GM increased its already top-heavy share of the domestic market to a record 55.8%, from 53.1% in 1975. To get an early start on meeting federal reg-ulatioris that require U.S.-made autos to average 27.5 m.p.g. by 1985, GM has ' taken a multi-billion-dollar gamble in shrinking the size and weight of its cars. The public's approval of the lighter and crisply styled autos has delighted GM executives. Cadillac, which brought out its Mercedes-size Seville, experienced its best year ever...
David Black, leader of the youth wing of the Progressive Conservative Party in Canada, said that while Americans "always brag about it, we cannot conceive of having a 62 per cent voting turnout as you did in 1962--it would be almost low enough to start a petition for another election in Canada...
...also dallying with Liz. They simply concluded that he was passing her round to his friends in Congress in return for political favors. Yet Hays did not try to give the impression that he was celibate when in the capital. Most mornings, a former aide says, he would brag to his staff of his purported conquests of the night before...
...Youth Congress is urging its male members to sign a pledge that they will not accept a dowry when they marry; female members are asked to have their families turn down requests for dowry payments. Plans are under way for sit-ins and picketing at ostentatious weddings where parents brag about their daughter's dowry. Sanjay Gandhi, the politically ambitious younger son of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi (TIME, Feb. 2) argues against dowries at every rally he attends as a spokesman for the Youth Congress executive committee. His mother has also spoken out against the practice, calling dowries...