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Another casualty: fuel-efficiency standards to take effect after 1985. Because of consumer demand for smaller cars, Detroit is already far ahead of the Government-mandated fuel-economy standards that require each automaker's fleet of cars to reach an average of 27.5 m.p.g...
...boys from Fleet Street responded in kind. They found the phone number of the $150,000 South Kensington flat her mother and father had bought for her and which she was sharing with three other young women. Reporters staked the place out and would call up till midnight and as early as six in the morning, badgering Diana for details of the romance. All this moved Mrs. Shand Kydd to write a letter of protest to the Times, and moved her daughter, finally, to tears. After a hectic pursuit from South Kensington to Mayfair, Diana sat and wept...
...being with [Charles ... but] I'm not in love with him. I wouldn't marry anyone I didn't love, whether he were the dustman or the King of England." One of her companions that night turned out to be a reporter, and the story hit Fleet Street the next...
This nest of Oxbridge spies, this den of Establishment traitors as well, if Fleet Street is to be believed. Two weeks ago, Britons were stunned by accusations in the Daily Mail that the late Sir Roger Hollis, chief of M15, British counterintelligence, before his retirement in 1965, was himself a Soviet...
Last week the Sunday Times produced a different sort of shocker, and the featured players were no less stunning: the late Earl Mountbatten of Burma, cousin of Queen Elizabeth and onetime Admiral of the Fleet; and Cecil King, now 80, former chairman of the International Publishing Corporation, Britain's largest press empire. The Sunday Times revived the story of a 1968 meeting between the two, first told by Lord Hugh Cudlipp, who was then deputy chairman of I.P.C. According to Cudlipp's 1976 autobiography, King had sought the assistance of Lord Mountbatten to mount a military coup against...