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...such, it is only one of the new generation of sports cars coming out of Detroit. The new breed traces its heritage to such European products as the Austin-Healey, the Triumph and the MG, which first whetted the appetites of many Americans for the sports car -though they were out of reach for most Americans. Out of this appetite came the inspiration for such American cars as the Thunderbird and the Corvette, whose price still hovers between $4,000 and $5,000, and for the sporty extras-bucket seats, stick shifts, wire wheels-best embodied in General Motors...
...Drebinger it was the beginning of a lifelong devotion. And since he did not have the athletic talent to become a big-league player, it was perhaps inevitable that he became a big-league reporter, one of that curious breed of semi-participant sportsmen known as sportswriters...
...fetid slums that choke Latin American cities breed disease, crime and a numbing sense of helplessness. For most slum dwellers, there is seem ingly no escape from misery, and little incentive to try. Yet in less than three years since it was founded, a small but dedicated group called ACCION (Americans for Community Cooperation in Other Nations) has shown that Venezuelan slum dwellers can be helped to help themselves. In Venezuela, it is a sort of private Peace Corps...
Computers promise to make U.S. business far more efficient, possibly bigger, certainly more powerful. However it affects lower-echelon employment, the computer is sure torequire a new breed of top manager: men who combine the talents of the big-businessman, the public administrator and the scientific researcher. Where will such paragons come from...
...Eurocrats, that new breed of international civil servants employed by the Common Market, are dedicated men. In the interests of efficiency, they are pushing for a merger of the Market's three separate governing organizations -the European Economic Community, the European Coal and Steel Community and the Atomic Energy Community. They have also prepared voluminous reports about Western Europe's growing inflation, with its soaring prices and wages. One result: the 7,000 Eurocrats, who are now unionized, are demanding an 8% pay raise of their own. Last week, after the Common Market offered only 2%, the Eurocrats...