Word: capris
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...CAPRI LETTERS, by Mario Soldati (312 pp.; Knopf; $1.25), recalls that cultured characters from cold climates have always suffered a loosening of the critical faculties in the warm Latin air. Italians have repaid the compliment by making a traditional figure of fun of the visitors making love among the ruins. Americans, especially, are known as puritans who think sex is unvaryingly wicked. In terms of this myth, Italian Movie Director and Novelist Mario Soldati has constructed a neat little bedroom tragedy...
From Dearborn, Mich, last week sounded the opening horn of the 1956 auto season. Ford Motor Co.'s Lincoln Division parted the curtains on two new models called the Premiere and Capri. In both looks and engineering, they represent a thorough redesign of previous Lincolns. They also represent the beginning of an ambitious campaign. Starting with these two models. Lincoln hopes gradually to edge General Motors' Cadillac from its position as the aristocrat of U.S. cars...
...most powerful Lincoln has ever built, and one of the most powerful ever put in a U.S. family car (285 h.p. v. 225 in the 1955 Lincoln, 270 in the Cadillac Eldorado. 275 in the Packard Caribbean, and 300 in Chrysler's limited production "300"). Both Premiere and Capri have automatic transmission and power steering as standard equipment; the Premiere adds power window controls and a device that moves the driver's seat in any of four directions. Optional: power brakes, an air-conditioning unit...
...biggest worry for finance companies are the marginal buyers who are living beyond their incomes. In a Pennsylvania showroom last week, the wife of a $79-a-week machinist was fondly eying a $5,100 pink Lincoln Capri; in Denver, Oldsmobile Dealer Alan Hoskins told of an eager buyer who earned $400 monthly and wanted a '55 Olds. "We figured out his income after house payments, furniture payments, TV payments, and after the car payment," said Hoskins, "he'd be left with $20 a month to live. I just couldn't let him get in deeper...
...money. Hiding behind dark glasses and displaying her customary distaste for photographers, Greta Garbo arrived in Monte Carlo, was photographed strolling the streets just before she boarded Greek Shipping Magnate Aristotle Onassis' yacht, which was bound for Saudi Arabia, with stops along the way at Capri and Venice...