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Aware of the trend, others have invaded what was once the domain of Cadillac (basic Detroit price for a four-door sedan with standard equipment: $5,247), Lincoln ($6,292) and the Chrysler Imperial ($5,795). The Oldsmobile Ninety-Eight, the Buick Electra 225 and the Chrysler New Yorker, top models in traditional medium-price lines, have evolved into luxury cars and penetrated the $4,000 mark. A growing array of luxury sports cars has also entered the field. Copying the early success of Ford's Thunderbird ($4,486 for a two-door hardtop), Detroit has made such entries...
...courtesan. Draped in bitten furs and clutching a parasol, she is grotesque, pitiful--and yet you can believe that once she was beautiful enough to charm all those admirals. Irene Pappas plays the young widow with the same pride and dignity she brought to her performance as Electra...
...distribute airplane coloring books and "first flight" certificates to children, pass out holiday greeting cards that poke gentle fun at passengers. P.S.A.'s reservation clerks are surrounded by signs that say: "Pleasant Service A-lways." The line even sponsors contests, sometimes awarding the free use of a whole Electra as a prize. And when its president was bumped from a fully booked flight by fare-paying passengers, P.S.A. proudly reported the incident in an advertisement that featured the scowling face of J. F. Andrews himself...
...readers to a novel called Zorba the Greek, a mad magnificat to man composed by the late Nikos Kazantzakis. This translation of the book into an English-language film might easily have changed the author's hearty wine of life into cinematic sugar water. Instead, Director Michael Cacoyannis (Electra) has served it up in a grand uproarious Bacchanalian bash...
...made a considerable contribution to the size of the Democratic victory. Soon after his nomination, Minnesota's Democratic Governor Karl Rolvaag dubbed Hubert "the happy warrior of our generation," and throughout the campaign Humphrey lived up to the title. He had "The Happy Warrior" painted on the chartered Electra that carried him some 52,000 miles back and forth across the U.S. Aboard the Warrior, happy days were mandatory. West Virginia Folk Singer Jimmy Wolforcl twanged his guitar, and campaign aides joined in verses from The Hubert Humphrey Sing-Along Book. Presiding over the festivities was the Democratic vice...