Word: gaps
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...effect, Ford has designed a new Lincoln model to fill the competitive gap left by the Lincoln Zephyr, abandoned in 1941. Next week, Ben Ford will bring out his new Mercury. It has been spruced up to make it a stouter competitor to De Soto, Pontiac, and the light Oldsmobiles and Buicks. It is bigger and will probably cost more than the 1948 Mercury...
...dignified, grey-haired civil engineer undertook to explain Father Riquet's success: "Voilà, at last a priest who makes sense. I don't care about his Jesuit politics, nor even about his soutane [cassock]. He represents something which we lack in France; he fills a gap because he is able to reconcile logic and faith...
...Newspaper men," says Art Valpey, "never seem to understand the great gap between playing and observing the game--the team is never as bad as the press makes it out when it is losing and it is never as good as the newspapers say when it is winning." Well, his boys are neither winning nor losing games this spring, but already the sportswriters are dusting off the crystal ball...
...ahead with the diaries' publication. The book will still be the May selection of the Book-of-the-Month and some 75 U.S. newspapers will run a series of excerpts. But all royalties (a minimum of $160,000) and all other profits will be held in escrow until GAP decides whether or not Doubleday is entitled to anything more than printing costs. Furthermore, Doubleday will not have the sole publishing rights. And as it is using only part of the diaries, there is plenty of material left for GAP to license to other publishers. Cracked GAP Boss David Bazelon...
...back with a thrown weight Tuesday, is out of Stillman but still unable to compete. "If that weight had hit anybody else." Coach Mikkola said yesterday, "we might have had a funeral." Another muscular shotputter, Geoff Tootell, is off probation now though, and will fill the gap...