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...promotions to encourage them to do just that. Chrysler advertises CONGRESS ACTS TO GIVE YOU A TAX REBATE . . . CHRYSLER ACTS TO MAKE IT GO FARTHER. The company is mailing $200 rebate checks of its own to buyers of Darts and Valiants. Some retailers, too, are bidding for the rebate buck. Chicago's Goldblatt Bros., a department store chain, last week promised shoppers a 10% discount "on most items" if they bring in their rebate checks...
...stagehands as they clear up the debris from the previous scene, Robert Larsen can demonstrate his ability, Peer, based on a folk hero, is an yarn-spinner and boaster, and Larsen is an excellent story-teller. From the opening scene, with Peer's fib of riding astride a reindeer-buck. Larsen reveals astounding acrobatic ability, vocal control, and stage presence, lending greater weight to Ibsen's lyrical verse. His versatility becomes apparent as his mood and expression age with Peer, who bears the scars of a weather-beaten, lonely old wanderer...
...roadside concessions. And such a memorial would well suit the way in which our leaders today conceive the role of the Founding Fathers. In Ford's words last Friday, 200 years ago there began a struggle that established our liberty a liberty both economic in its promise of a buck to those who can earn it and spiritual in its assurance of privacy to all who can accumulate enough to build a house in the suburbs...
...woman spoke of her favorite country singers; she didn't share my enthusiasm for Waylon Jennings, but liked Hank Williams. The best country music show she'd ever seen was the time Buck Owens appeared on television with his former wife and her present husband Merle Haggard, and Buck's son, borne by the very same former Mrs. Owens. They all sang together. The woman's eyes shone as she told me what that incredible reunion meant...
...substance. As a stoic believer in the capacity of the Harvard faculty to steer a steady course in its commitment to intellectual excellence, he suggests that "it is possible to still hope that the academic culture may regain much of the ground it has lost." As if to buck up his discouraged colleagues he closes his essay with the thought that the "price of freedom and innovation is often disturbing; the rewards are very high." Demonstrating these rewards, he writes: "In February-March 1971, the International Gallup Poll asked leaders in 70 nations: 'What University do you regard...