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Despite the strike, the Ford Motor Co. last week displayed some of its leading entries in the 1968 model sweepstakes-and did it with a flair. Greeting the press at the La Costa Country Club in Carlsbad, Calif.-about as far from the Detroit picket lines as the company could get-Ford Division Manager M. S. ("Matt") McLaughlin buoyantly said that dealers will soon have 67,000 of the '68 models on hand. He also managed to seem happy while noting that 158,000 of the '67s are waiting to be sold at a buyer's price...
...film festivals go, the biennial splash at the baths of Karlovy Vary, Czechoslovakia, seldom causes more than a ripple of interest in the world of cinema. Last week, however, the centuries-old spa-known as Carlsbad when Dostoevsky used to gamble away rubles at the casino, while the crowned heads of Europe took the waters to prolong their reigns-was jammed with film buffs, critics, buyers and distributors from all across Europe and the U.S. None of them had anything more than a peripheral interest in the dreary assortment of 42 films from such ersatz Hollywoods as Mongolia and Tunisia...
...GOLF CLASSIC (CBS, 3-4 p.m.). Third annual tournament, with 32 leading professional golfers competing for $166,000 at La Costa Country Club, Carlsbad, Calif...
...sharply rapped the NLRB for ruling that lockouts give employers "too much power." The court went far toward holding that lockouts are illegal only if designed for union busting-a point partly illustrated by the case of five retail grocers who bargained together against their clerks' union in Carlsbad...
DAVID APKER Carlsbad...