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...last summer, when Japan's automakers listed 2,500,000 cars as potentially defective, Toyota has recalled 971,275 autos in Japan and 58,525 Corollas in the U.S. Last week the company called in 47,879 of its Mark II series in the U.S. to check the brake master-cylinder system. Kamiya stressed that the shrine is intended for victims of accidents in all kinds of cars. Last year the worldwide death toll was about 175,000, including...
...flocked to the "satellite cities" that spread out from Brasilia to a distance of 25 miles. Trucks rumble along the 1,350-mile Belem-Brasilia highway, spawning hundreds of roadside settlements, some of them with a distinct frontier flavor. At one hamlet, appropriately called Piza no Freio (Hit the Brake), the only permanent residents are a madam and her four girls...
Believing in Bargains. The brake on auto sales has all but eliminated the visceral promotions plugging four-barrel carburetors and twin cams to a rollicking dragstrip beat. "The American car-buying public is interested in economy," says Ford Advertising Manager Paul Tippett. "Our ads have to be practical rather than emotional." Accordingly, Ford's spring campaign has an "economy drive" theme. Can economy be made exciting? Answers Tippett: "Advertising does not have to be glamorous as long as it is not dull...
...within it he has a structure that breaks the back of relativism." Gilkey agrees with Boston College Philosopher David Rasmussen that, for Catholicism, Lonergan may be the liberating force that Friedrich Schleiermacher was for 19th century Protestantism. But for liberal Protestants, Gilkey notes, Lonergan could provide something of a brake to excessive subjectivism. "He has a way of freeing one from authority, yet setting up a rational authority...
...what?" He inadvertently starts to apply his brake...