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...trying to be ahead of the Government. In almost all '67 models, dual brakes, collapsible steering columns, four-way flashers and extra padding are 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...
...lasts, to Eddie Albert as an expectant father who berates himself just before the bandit attack with: "What kind of man was I, to get my wife pregnant at a time like this?" As the wife, Betty Field runs the risk of menopausal pregnancy, while the other girls crank up enough trauma for several melodramas. Mission Leader Margaret Leighton is a sexually repressed religious nut with lesbian leanings toward Teacher Sue Lyon. Anne Bancroft (in a role vacated by Patricia Neal when she suffered a stroke) plays a tough mission doctor who drinks, smokes, tells truths that hurt, and ultimately...
Reverse Strike A hulking, meaty, headstrong man, the father of five children, Dolci is a complex of anomalies who seems to pious Italians a devious political crank, and to political reformers a man of exasperating otherworldliness who will fast and pray to get a road built...
...DAYS OF HENRY THOREAU, by Walter Harding. With this able biography, Thoreau Expert Harding seeks to show that the voice of Concord's consecrated crank, silenced a century ago, speaks more loudly than ever...
Henry David Thoreau has been buried in Concord, Mass. for a century. The stubborn, contradictory spirit laid to rest there did not loom large over his own times. He was considered an eccentric loafer, a consecrated crank with queer ideas. Since then Thoreau's ideas have had their seasons. In this excellent biography by a Thoreau scholar who has written and edited 18 earlier books on his chosen subject, Walter Harding argues that Thoreau's spirit is more pervasive now than ever before...