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Sidecar to Swallow. U.S. owners like the Jaguar for its power (160-h.p. engine) and speed, the way it hugs the road and the hand-tooled precision of its parts. They buy three times as many Jaguar sedans as sport models, dote on such things as a steering wheel that is adjustable to the height of the driver...
...kind of project-at once heartwarming, over-organized and unabashedly flamboyant-that Americans dote on. The townspeople of New Brunswick, NJ. had set out to build a home for 23-year-old ex-Marine Robert William Hoelzle, who lost the use of his legs when he was hit by a Japanese bullet on Okinawa. It was just like an old-fashioned house-raising bee, except that it took place in the age of the assembly line and the publicity...
...best single rule for TV fashions is neutrality. The whole thing hits hardest at women who dote on some shades of red -and at TV engineers who would like to show the girls in orange-red bathing suits. In television's strange alchemy, this shade simply disappears...
...overblown eloquence of gesture and voice in tragic opera and the grim melo-naturalism of a modern police state are shrewdly used to enhance each other. The opera house serves, too, as a huge, machine-like symbol of a nation. Opera lovers will dote on the Puccini sound track, but moviegoers who have no special affection for opera are likely to find the protracted, underlighted operatic sequences dull. There is, however, some good fierce melodrama which almost anyone can enjoy...
...Clevelanders respect the memory of Founder Moses for something else: he was the first man with a Cleveland Plan-and Clevelanders dote on Cleveland plans...