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...first of the new group, the Ford Mustang, made a fast breakaway in 1964. It was rapidly followed by competing cars whose names evoked feelings of adventure and even danger: Plymouth's Barracuda, Chevrolet's Camaro, Pontiac's Firebird, American Motors' Javelin, Mercury's Cougar, and the Dodge Charger (later called the Challenger). Soon the sports compacts grabbed almost 11% of the nation's car market, and souped-up "muscle" versions were introduced for the "performance" minded...
Henry Ford slammed the brakes on the downhill ride in 1965 by ordering a complete overhaul of Lincoln-Mercury models. In the past five years, product development costs have risen 70%, and the investment has paid off with some of the most stylish lines in the business. The sporty Cougar, introduced in 1967, attracted young drivers to Lincoln-Mercury showrooms for the first time in a decade; today the Cougar outsells Pontiac's Firebird. The elegant Continental Mark III, brought out in 1968, has picked up 19% of the luxury-car market, which was once the all but exclusive...
That hushed tone is never far from the musical experience of Coltrane's fellow avantgardists. Their styles are wildly individual, embracing Taylor's cougar-on-the-keys frenzy, Shepp's piercing shrieks and moans and Cherry's haunting cries. But what they have in common, and have passed on to followers like Saxophonist John Carter, Trumpeter Bobby Bradford and Saxophonist Roscoe Mitchell, is the sense of a total music that extends outward to the listener like an irresistible magnetic field...
...occasionally travels with her customers throughout the country. She'll drink only Harvey's Bristol Cream sherry or imported Mumm's champagne, wears expensive clothes from Bonwit's and Best and Co. where she maintains charge accounts, and from Truc-a place that fascinates her. She drives a new Cougar convertible, visits the Jazz Workshop when it features top musicians, reads a lot- "Harold Robbins novels, nothing very heavy" -and spends most of her free time playing with her two children whom she says she adores...
...been up to in the past 200 years. but he isn't doing any preaching. He has this way of looking at things that lets you go on where he left off, if you want to- but if you'd rather spend the entire book in the Rapid Black Cougar Saloon (such a fine name) watching Mustache Sal do her thing with the cowhands, that's okay with...