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...already to have passed the touchy line separating the confidently middle-aged from those rapidly approaching the status of Senior Citizen. Fortunately, spectacles removed and fingers relaxed around a never-neglected glass, he became, most assuredly, Norman Mailer. We found an aging angry-young-man looking tired under his cowl of curly, grey, and bedraggled hair, his fight eye swollen almost shut from an operation earlier in the day. But he was to grow younger and livelier as the evening drained away...
...something of a shambles-Woodstock without music. But as U.S. auto-racing events go, the Sebring also has touches of Continental class. It is characterized more by ascots than bandannas; French, Italian and British accents mingle with the Southern drawl; in the parking lots, truck campers rest cheek by cowl with Lamborghinis and Maseratis...
...CARL COWL (for the estate of Claude McKay) Brooklyn...
...standard. Even beyond these, most new cars feature safety items that are either standard or optional. >General Motors cars have plastic caps over window-crank handles to soften the gouging action of metal under impact. Pontiac is introducing windshield wipers that, when not in use, retract into the engine cowl to allow the driver unobstructed vision. Many G.M. cars have a dashboard light that, when the brakes fail, winks like a slot machine. >Ford has made standard a "seatbelt reminder light" that flashes on when the engine is started. Lincoln-Mercury's new Cougar sports car will not start...
Holy barracuda! Now, thanks to that diabolical device, the camera, the truth is out! Divested of his bat cowl, the caped crusader is none other than U.S. Federal Communications Commission Chairman E. William Henry, 37, who roared out of his cave to do a comic song-and-dance at a Multiple Sclerosis Society benefit in Washington. But an evildoer took his picture. Would the caped commissioner repeat the act before the Women's National Democratic Club as requested? Would the network archenemies of ABC-TV's Batman think the chairman was giving dastardly publicity to the bat channel...