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This is a James Bond caper and, as in the previous eight, there are plenty of fancy gadgets. Two are worthy of special note. One is a car that converts into an airplane (a bit of a bore; flying autos have already shown up in Popular Mechanics). The other, also a car, is less flashy. It merely moves in the air between the banks of a river and spins three times like a huge eggbeater before coming to rest, upright, on the far side. Now that is not as elaborate as the ability to take wing, but there is something...
...Nikon camera incarnate, and his transistorized prose--a mixture of journalese and clinical report--combines some of the worst elements of the simple Hesse, the technical Barth, the mundane Beckett, and the grotesque-for-the-sake-of-grotesqueness Barthelme. He is as throughly modern as Japan's prodigal-car, the high on fuel consumption and low on credit...
Keyes D. Metcalf, the University librarian when Lippmann made the agreement with Yale, said last year that he had estimated in 1946 that the columnist's papers would require at least a big freight car to be transported. He added that in the two decades since then Lippmann probably accumulated another freight car's worth...
Although more than 90 per cent of all visitors will come by car or bus, the report concludes that there will be a maximum traffic increase of 5.7 per cent on Boylston St., and 3 per cent on other surrounding roads...
...Steel's small but still significant retreat came one week after its announcement of price increases ranging as high as 8% on some basic steel products. Much as he did when General Motors sprang some hefty car price increases on his brand-new Administration last August, President Ford issued a statement that he was "very disappointed" at the news and doubtful that the price hikes were justified. As it happened, the Wage and Price Council had already taken it upon itself to fire off a telegram to U.S. Steel's New York headquarters asking the company to explain...