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...foreign roads (including Bermuda, as legions of U.S. tourists have discovered); Austria's Steyr Daimler Puch; and Holland's Batavus. All have set up U.S. subsidiaries and are racing to open moped dealerships. Honda, the big Japanese maker of motorcycles and cars, as yet has no bona fide moped on U.S. roads, but it and other Japanese motorcycle makers are reportedly gearing up for American sales...
...court ruled that a seniority system was not necessarily illegal even if its effect was to favor white males over others in bidding for promotions, protection from layoffs and similar benefits of years on the job. Justice Potter Stewart, expressing the majority's opinion, wrote that "bona fide" seniority systems with no overt racial underpinnings are not unlawful, even though such systems may in practice have the impact of discriminating against certain workers. As for discrimination that occurred prior to passage of the 1964 Civil Rights Act, the court ruled that "no person may be given retroactive seniority...
...they say, a two-way street. The party was interested in him only insofar as it could use him. He was promptly elected executive secretary of his unit because the faction supporting him figured that the opposition would not dare vote against a bona fide Negro...
...script that offers a wide variety of settings and locations that allow his prodigious imagination its rein. And there is, after all, only so so you can do with the interior of a railway car. All of which does not detract from the film's credentials as a bona fide Hitchcock. In fact, viewers who encounter difficulties with the implicit morbidity and amorality that mark some of the Master's works will find this glib comedy-thriller a welcome relief. Dame May Whitty plays the title role of the innocuous old lady-spy whose disappearance aboard a train furnishes...
...Wall's managers and regulars--all bona fide members of Cambridge's bohemian fringe--preferred to think of these shorts as "art films." Art films--you know, the kind Nabokov knew would be worth a few chuckles when he used the term in Lolita, when Lolita tells the lecherous Professor Humbert that she has been to live in an artists' colony in Mexico...