Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...great," lined the narrow highway from Tehran to catch a glimpse of him as his motorcade drove by. When the blue Mercedes bearing the 78-year-old Shi'ite leader neared the city, the throng burst through a cordon of police and armed Islamic guerrillas. It engulfed the car in a sea of humanity so dense that it took nearly an hour for the Ayatullah Ruhollah Khomeini to complete the last mile and a half of his journey. Finally, he mounted the steps of a golden-domed shrine and looked out in triumph over...
...falcon and a pair of matching gold goblets. Prince Philip did not do badly either. His presents included several jewel-studded golden swords. The Prince, however, provided the one awkward moment on an otherwise triumphal tour. At the end of a sightseeing tour in Oman, he observed his car being driven away empty, and loudly uttered an obscenity rarely heard from royal lips...
...Steve Martin and Daffy Duck. Though always wearing the same costume-baggy pants, loud shirts, suspenders-he whips in and out of a multitude of comic characterizations. He can mimic the cadences of Shakespeare, many foreign languages, an ark of animals, various machines. His act includes a redneck used-car salesman, a Russian comic, a gay director, a touchingly mad grandpa...
...renegotiated upward. He and Valerie have bought an eight-room house in Topanga Canyon. Williams has not, however, joined the smart crowd in Hollywood by acquiring a Mercedes or a Rolls; he has bought a battered 1966 Land Rover. Says he: "I can't deal with new cars. I like a car that's like me -you never know what's going to happen next...
...created Ford's "Better idea" and "Ford wants to be your car company" slogans, along with the famous "Sign of the cat" for Lincoln-Mercury. The theme at Chrysler will be engineering, and Astronaut Neil Armstrong will apparently remain as the corporate spokesman. Whether K&E will be able to improve the fading Chrysler quality image is a major question. Says a Detroit ad agency chief: "Iacocca could not quickly change the company's cars, so he changed what he could-the advertising...