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...late February, and are still climbing in March, with some dealers reporting business 100% better than last month. These increases encouraged dealers to hope that the bad winter weather was as responsible for poor sales as all the complaints about Detroit's 1958 cars. One all-inclusive gripe, from Economist Slichter, who drives a 1951 Ford and recently refused to buy a 1958 model: "They are inconveniently long, inconveniently wide, inconveniently low, wasteful of gas, expensive to maintain, clumsy and ugly...
...hear all this business about Broadway sin and sex and smoke-filled rooms," Willson says, "but this company is different. It really is. Our kids weep with joy over the show, that's how much they feel about it. Do you know there hasn't been a gripe, not a bit of hysteria, not a fight from anyone since we started...
While on the subject of exams, a new gripe might just as well be added. Proctors put the time a student finishes his exam on the cover of those blue books which are handed in early. The rationale is that this gives the instructor an idea as to how difficult his exam was. In reality, the time listings serve to prejudice the grader against the student who finishes early. This is understandable, although unfortunate. If the instructor is so curious as to the time-consuming aspects of his exam, he could visit the examination room some time before the exam...
...minute wait for a few top attractions, Disney spent more than $2,000,000 on new rides to spread out the crowds. Since then, he has conducted 55 public-opinion polls, each sampling 500 to 700 visitors to find out what people do or do not like. Biggest gripe: high prices, though 80% say they are coming back...
...lifelong newsman, whose family for the past 107 years has had a City of London monopoly on reporting news from small city courts, Hubble was first assigned to grapple with readers' problems in wartime, when he ran a serviceman's gripe column in the armed-forces paper, Union Jack. So successful was the column that at war's end, when the Union Jack's editor, a bright young Fleet Streeter named Hugh Cudlipp (now editorial director for the Mirror group) returned as editor of the Pictorial, he persuaded Hubble to run the readers' service bureau...