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...example, sells for $2,091 (including federal excise tax and dealer preparation charges) and a Pinto for $1,944, v. $1,899 for the basic Volkswagen. The subcompacts, though, are small and cheap enough to attract many motorists who might buy bigger U.S.-made cars if they felt more flush, but whose desire for economy has been sharpened by the bite of the 1970 recession and continuing inflation. A G.M. poll of early Vega buyers disclosed that 30% would have turned to a larger and more expensive G.M. car if the Vega had not been available...
This week it was the Advocate that changed. The January issue, printed on S.D. Warren's Lustro Offset Enamel Glo 70 pound stock paper, was planned, and is guaranteed, to cut up any tutor's rump. But hopefully, your tutor and you will read it before you flush it. To incite you, the Advocate now offers provocative visual and psychic stimulation-prose, poetry, drawings and photographs from within Harvard. The Advocate 's new layout and design format was introduced to bring readers some pleasure and to attract writers to submit their work and publish in the next issue, in April...
...crisis" and churches in terms of "embattled," the Salvation Army seems as foursquare and unchanging as the crisp Victorian bonnets still worn by its ladies. It is almost as if Norman Rockwell had painted the scenes on the mind. Bright-smiling women, their cheeks pinked only with the flush of zeal, ladling out free dinners in a Skid Row mission. Clear-eyed men in high military collars, tootling on flügelhorns and euphoniums on chilly street corners. A brisk song, a quaint sermon. A bunk for the stumbling drunk. Even that perennial embarrassment, an outstretched tambourine and a copy...
...high grass like some hungry predator, his burly hulk seemingly impervious to the chill wind knifing off the North Sea. Climbing a creek bank, one of the hunters stumbles. "Watch yer don't jam yer moozle in the mood," warns Thorpe. In the lifting darkness, the hunters flush a pair of teal. Thorpe takes no notice. His quarry is not duck but the prized pink-footed goose. Positioning the hunters along a flyway, Thorpe raises his nose and sniffs the wind. His squinty blue eyes search the horizon. Then, lifting his face to the gray sky, he emits...
...bathrooms majestic and unapologetic. To show the way, he offers a selection of stately 19th century baths with Egyptian, Greek Revival and rococo influences. For "character, luxury and style" in the 20th century, Hicks leans toward upholstery, mahogany furnishings and crystal chandeliers. Must reading for arrivistes in the first flush of prosperity...