Word: dino
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that year's recession. Since then, largely at Gianni's urging, Fiat has followed Il Boom with medium-priced cars and then luxury models. In all, the company now builds 20 models, including its sporty 124, which is becoming Europe's Mustang, and the Fiat-Dino, a 120-m.p.h. job that costs $6,000. Unlike the earlier
...green and yellow colors, should help considerably. They outnumber B.P.'s own chain in Britain (4,900 stations), will bring B.P.'s worldwide total to 36,000 stations. To pay for them, B.P. has worked out a scheme that is fancier than Sinclair's Dino Dollars game. Because of the weakness of the pound, Her Majesty's government would never approve payment of $300 million in sterling. So B.P. plans to pay in dollars over a six-year period beginning in 1972. That is just about when the company's recent Alaskan strikes will presumably...
...with a bad case of saddle sores, and cacklingly tells the condemned that they have the kind of "necks that'll snap pretty good." The joke, see, is that Stewart is really Martin's square-shootin' brother, and the hangman bit is a ruse to spring Dino and the boys. The trick clicks, and the gang gallops off into the bandolero (bandit) country of Mexico. On the way they pick up a shapely senorita (Raquel Welch) as a hostage...
...Raquel. When the gang is finally attacked by some bandoleros, Martin falls mortally wounded and gaspingly tells Raquel that if a girl like her could like a guy like him, then "there must be something good in me." Nursing a ventilated chest, Stewart staggers by to add that old Dino "always wanted the right things" but somehow "it was always hard for him to see the light at the end of the trail." And so, fans, ever true to the old Hollywood epitaph, they died with their boots in their mouths...
...they are trying all kinds of gambits to make them shorter. Newspapers carry personal ads seeking matches, with an offer to split the prize. John Racanelli, owner of a Chicago pizza parlor, is typical; he spent $8 advertising in two papers for the other half of his $2,500 Dino Dollar card. "Everybody who called had the same coupon I did," says Racanelli. "I never won anything...