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...model car General Motors is preparing to foist upon the public; Erica, in turn, has taken to shoplifting small items from the local Bonwit-Teller's. Brett DeLosanto, meanwhile, is facing the classic dilemma of the artist-in-society: should he continue to design cars or should he flee to California and make sculptures out of automobile parts? And poor emerson Vale--consumer crusader and author of "The American Car: Unsure in Any Need"--why, the man clearly has a fixation of seat belts and exhaust pipes...
...dismissed with a laugh the rumor that Lin Piao had been killed in a plane crash while attempting to flee after an abortive coup. "It was intended to give a feeling of insecurity and instability to influence the U. N. vote," he said in an interview before the lecture...
Elkin is impervious to outside pressure. It therefore follows that he may love Alex and Daniel, and yet not care to the extent of living with them--of helping them approach their problems on their own level. He is able to flee in the end to New York City, where a new market has opened for his luxury commodities...
...after he organized a two-day human relations program for blacks and whites. Yet any integration plan, if it is to succeed, must include the suburbs, as both the N.A.A.C.P. and the Citizens' Committee have emphasized. If full-scale integration is ordered in the city only, whites will flee in ever greater numbers to the suburbs. But if suburban schools should be incorporated into the plan, it would be possible to maintain the Negro percentage in each school at 20%. Whites would also get the message that it was no longer possible to run away from integration...
...from his parents that many a skyjacker wants to flee. Often as a child he alternately detested both his father, who may have been alcoholic and violent, and his mother, in many cases a religious fanatic. Characteristically, he sought sanctuary first with one and then with another, and since they disliked each other, each parent welcomed his desertion of the other. To Hubbard, the act of skyjacking symbolizes and repeats this childhood flight; skyjackers "seek to go to nations that are unfriendly to their homeland, in the expectation that they will not be returned...