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...also clamped some price controls on food and manufactured goods, and Denmark has placed a 9%-sales tax on most nonfood products. In Italy the government's austerity program aims at raising taxes on cars and gasoline, restricting installment purchases. Some manufacturers protest that such measures may brake Europe's boom too hard, but political leaders insist that drastic action is needed to stop the rise in export prices and narrow the trade deficits that have been growing dangerously in Italy and Britain...
...return the favor-by beating the sports-car boys at their own silly game. "Sports cars are easy to drive," he sneered. "You get more time to think. Sure, you have to study the course, and you have to downshift, and you have to learn how to brake. But I've always liked shifting gears." The 37-car field included everything from Falcons and Corvettes to a pair of hot new Porsches. But from the moment the time trials started, it was strictly a two-car race. Clark was not there, but Gurney was-in a bright red Lotus...
...There's No Business Like Show Business, meaning to indicate that she's damned glad that a girl named Ethel Zimmerman of the Astoria section of Queens once dropped the Zim, quit her job as a secretary to the president of the B. K. Vacuum Booster-Brake Co., and went into show biz. Standing ovations indicate that other people...
...evolution of the giveaway into a news-bearing paper is by no means total. Many of Florida's entries, for example, are all ads: a typical frontpage banner headline in the Hialeah-Miami Springs News-Shopper (distribution: 101,000) reads BRAKE JOB $27.95. And even where the giveaway paper has turned journalistic, its motives often have little to do with professional dedication. In many cases, the spur has been provided by new postal rates that discriminate against junk mail-the classification that fits free-delivery newspapers. By claiming paid circulation, the giveaways that do not depend solely on carrier...
...caper had been brilliantly planned and executed. To stop the train, the robbers had covered the green light with a glove, activated the red one with four flashlight batteries. In uncoupling the cars, they had deftly operated both the hydraulic and steam-brake systems without raising an alarm. In choosing Bridego Bridge as the transfer point, they picked one of the most deserted spots along the rail line, and further safeguarded their escape by systematically cutting all telephone lines in the vicinity. Borrowing a bicycle, a trainman pedaled to the nearest police station in Cheddington, and reached it an hour...