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...visit to the U.S. He had built a minor Paris reputation as a television M.C. and animator of the popular Tele-Paris TV show. After obtaining a month's leave of absence from the French network, Angelvin sailed for New York accompanied by his large Buick sedan. Narcotics agents, already interested in Angelvin's connections with a suspected drug dealer named Scaglia, voyaged with him; on landing, Angelvin was accused of having illegally imported 50 kilos of heroin hidden in the car. Before his trial, Angelvin was held as a material witness in several New York City lockups...
...conditioning is more common nowadays. Jean Tinguely's joyous black Rotozaza, No. 1 tosses out colored balls and then sucks them back in again, a mystifying process intended as a sardonic parody of the production-consumption cycle. Baldaccini Cesar took his revenge on a high-powered yellow Buick by crushing it into a monolithic, totally stationary monument with the aid of a commercial hydraulic press. Edward Kienholz makes an irreverent visual joke out of his Friendly Grey Computer. The instructions read: "If you know your computer well, you can tell when it's tired and blue. Turn rocker...
...course at that time I was handling distribution myself. Friday I'd take a fellow with me, load the big Buick up that I had, we'd go out, he'd jump into the front of stores with them. I delivered until I got up to 36,000. Then I just couldn't do it all; it was too much: writing the paper, covering the courts, delivering the paper, so I finally hired a few fellows to take care of the distribution for me. Finally, eventually I wound up with eight or ten men just handling distribution...
Sketching the Profile. On the basis of auto statistics and city directories, Polk computers can print out maps of cities marking the exact locations of affluence and poverty. Magazines interested in sending their more expensive mail into Buick, Oldsmobile and Cadillac homes, instead of secondhand Dodge Dart households, can rent the list from Polk. Or Polk can take care of the mail campaign altogether. It already ranks with Sears, Roebuck as one of the biggest customers of the U.S. mails. Last year Polk took care of a single 23-million-letter mailing for an automaker, a record for the company...
...single ten-day period, of course, is anything but conclusive. Nonetheless, the industry's early-October performance suggests that the 10% tax surcharge has done remarkably little to dampen consumer spending.* With Buick and Oldsmobile improving most, G.M. showed sizable gains in all divisions except Cadillac. Ford fared best with such full-size models as its new LTD, while Lincoln Mercury's biggest gainer was the Cougar, available for the first time in a convertible. Chrysler reported across-the-board gains, paced by Plymouth's ultra-sporty "Road Runner," so-called because of a "beep beep" horn...