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...coming back for more, and best of all from Detroit's point of view, they preferred to buy big. The auto companies responded by producing more V-8-powered, full-size cars, the industry's real moneymakers, and by making its successful compacts, such as the Ford Falcon and the Plymouth Valiant, longer and heavier...
...must deal with that question, along with all the other questions that feed into it, is Edward Irving Koch, 55, mayor since 1978 and, as Sydney Greenstreet said of Humphrey Bogart in The Maltese Falcon, a real character. If New York is a taxi, Ed Koch is its driver?quick-tempered, belligerent, opinionated, chatty, protective, frank and possibly nuts. He usually speeds, and sometimes he drives on the sidewalk. His enemies are "crackpots." To everyone within earshot he asks, "How'm I doing?" Two out of three of those surveyed have answered: good...
Jobs outside the Catskills were even harder to come by. He got a spot as a singing waiter at a Brooklyn joint called the Polish Falcon, where the emcee was a woman named Sally Marr. Rodney hung around with her I son, who was in the Navy then. He called himself Lenny Bruce...
Most of the Rebels easily evade the Imperial invasion, but Han, Leia, Chewbaca and C-3PO stay behind until Darth Vader's black robes nearly envelop them. They then take to the dilapidated and constantly malfunctioning Millenium Falcon, in which they escape from their crumbling arctic fortress only to be pursued relentlessly by a fleet of Imperial star cruisers...
...both 1959 and 1970, the Big Three introduced new small cars to fight the imports. But successful small models such as the Ford Falcon grew heavier and weighted down with options. Others, such as GM's Corvair and Vega, which were widely criticized for poor engineering, sold badly. The imports rebounded unharmed from both assaults. Sales of imported cars, just 498,785 in 1960, had more than tripled...