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Ford's 1963 models offer transistorized ignition for heavy trucks and promise it for the Galaxie's 406 high-performance engine. Several other transistorized ignition systems are already available for the tired engines of cars already on the road, or for sports cars striving for that final fillip of efficiency...
...wiggly in a silk dress and smiling sweetly at 700 howling fans, Sophia Loren, in that most hallowed of Hollywood rites, pressed her palms into the gooey cement before Grauman's Chinese Theater. She followed up with her footprints, pressed in with a twist, and then as a fillip below her signature, scrawled an Italian motto: Solo per sempre−only forever...
...much-publicized Clan and invite Frank ("The Leader") Sinatra to participate? Back from Frankie came a telegram stating his price: $250,000 an hour. Piqued, David fired off an answering wire: "Presume stipulated fee is for your traditional program of intramural ring-a-ding-dinging with additional fillip of musical lyrics mounted on TelePrompTer. Please advise price for spontaneous discussion." But Sinatra emerged the victor by a cable's length: "The $250,000 fee is for my usual talent of song and dance. However, now that I understand the picture a little more clearly, I must change...
...have seen to it that no female climbed their mountain or entered their Ryusenji Temple. Undisturbed, they practiced their ascetic disciplines-walking barefoot through fires of logs and leaves while reciting sutras, plunging into freezing pools, hanging by their ankles over vertiginous cliffs while confessing their sins. (A favorite fillip of the monks is to dangle novices carelessly over a cliff, pretending to let go from time to time to help them attain a sense of man's helplessness...
MANY of the cover subjects added a fillip to their autographs. Alfred Krupp returned his signature with a note from his secretary saying that the Ruhr industrialist rarely gave his autograph, but was making an exception. J. Paul Getty, one of the world's richest men, wrote his name in pencil, and Kim Novak wrote, "Best wishes...