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Knudsen has good reason to gloat. For the first time since 1935, Ford trucks are expected to outsell the longtime leader, Chevrolet. By Nov. 10, Ford had sold 562,000 trucks, against Chevrolet's 548,000; it expects to reach an alltime record of 650,000 by Jan. 1. Yet Chevrolet should not feel too bad: its truck sales are expected to increase by 11% over last year...
...think the Communists have been left unchecked in this country for so long, and I don't think the average American is aware of it," says Ron. "Look at the riots at Columbia and Berkeley. Who gains by all this? The Communists. It makes them gloat," Sally agrees and adds: "Mayor Daley handled it right. He was prepared. The Democratic Convention wasn't a fraternity initiation." Ron, a Lutheran, believes that there is too much permissiveness everywhere: "I would have gone to college if I had been spanked a few more times...
Harvard's tennis team dumped Cornell in routine fashion yesterday, but the Crimson netmen will not have much time to gloat over their 8-1 victory...
...said that cutting Government spending was a better way to fight inflation than raising taxes, as Johnson proposes, but the fact is that Congress failed either to raise taxes or make an appreciable dent in spending. The Republicans tried, to be sure, but the only specific saving Dirksen would gloat over was foreign aid, the program with no broad lobby in this country. And when Ford attacked the "pretty bad record" of the 89th, he was forgetting the millions of voters benefiting from that Congress's historically significant output. The present Congress, while producing some good legislation...
There are limits. Last Sunday morning the Mayor appeared on television to gloat over what hippies are calling "the Great Bust." A few hours later, unperturbed hippies were smoking grass on the Cambridge Common. "Smoking marijuana?" challenged the Mayor last week, taking a quick sip from his frappe. "Have you got proof? Our men say it was mostly tea leaves." Anyway, he added, "A raid there would have been a bust"--he means a failure--"because the hip-bo's left when they saw the police around. The hip-bo's are the ones we're after...