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...nation's highest. Says Chrysler Safety Director Roy Haeusler: "I find very little defense for our advertising the racing aspects of our cars." To back the contention that speed sells and safety does not, automakers cite the 1956 Ford, a heavily promoted "safety car" that was a dud. Of course, times change: back in 1956, people laughed at filter cigarettes...
...billed as a "general strike"-a major protest against the moderate government of Chilean President Eduardo Frei. But when it came off last week, it proved a dud. Only 35,000 workers stayed away from their jobs, and the climactic "rally" in Santiago's Plaza Artesanos drew a skimpy crowd. Miners in helmets and packs marched listlessly to a drum and bugle corps; a few busloads of young girls chanted: "If the government continues like this, we will cut off its nose." Not even chunky Communist Councilwoman Mireya Baltra, berating the "imperialists" between swigs from a bottle of Pepsi...
...eleven, he played Mozart's Concerto in A Major with the Berlin Symphony. In 1906, thanks to the influence of a U.S. music critic who had heard him play at Paderewski's Swiss villa, the young pianist was signed for a tour of the U.S. It was a dud. At his debut in Carnegie Hall, the critics dismissed Rubinstein for being, as one put it, "half-baked?not a prodigy, not an adult." Those were the days when he was playing with more fire than accuracy...
...reputation for being vain, fickle, unreliably charming and dependably indiscreet. Never too far from a mirror to lose sight of himself, he is a dude in his own parlor but usually a dud in anyone else's. Nonetheless, there is hardly a woman in the world today who can get along without him. Let her husband vanish, her housekeeper quit, her children join the Peace Corps anc her best friend move away; so long as ner hairdresser doesn't pull up roots, a woman feels secure...
...future by convincing them that the university can always find acceptable men in the ranks of non-educators. Men of unique and outstanding ability like Hersey will not usually be willing to take on the responsibilities of running a dormitory. And the university might always pick a "dud...