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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rolled into Reno, under a banner reading "The Edsels Are Here," for the club's first Western regional meeting. Last weekend, the 600-member club held its first national convention at the Indianapolis Speedway, while 50 members of the Midwest Area Edsel Club, not connected with the national group, were gathering for a rally at Toledo...
Vindication Sought. Co-founder and president of the national group is Edsel Henry Ford, 43, a California hospital official who is no relation to the Detroit Fords.* He bought his first used Edsel in 1959, out of curiosity, and now owns six. "I had to fulfill the image" that the name conveyed, he explains. There are even more zealous owners, such as the Midwestern doctor who owns 13 Edsels, the Marine in Viet Nam who had his Edsel shipped to Hawaii to be closer to him, and the long-distance bus driver who, when he sees an Edsel, stops...
...first trip abroad, another "comrade" pressured him to "see how people behave" in his travel group while visiting France. Though only politically reliable Russians are allowed to travel abroad, they are still forced to spy on one another. Says Kuznetsov: "If five people are traveling abroad, at least two of them are informers...
...could think only of getting permission to travel abroad. "Informers are what they like," he said to himself. "Fine. So they'll get a real piece of informing." He began to drop hints to the KGB that a new underground journal was about to be published by a group of his colleagues, including Poet Evgeny Evtushenko. Kuznetsov does not make clear whether his fabricated story actually placed those writers in any real danger. But he passes a tortured judgment on himself as well as other Soviet intellectuals. "I now believe," he says, "that the main reason why many highly...
...acquainted with several Roman Catholic clergymen at the St. Charles Borromeo Seminary in the Philadelphia suburb of Overbrook, and eagerly seized the opportunity to portray four clerics as well as a prominent Catholic layman. For Eakins, it was a rare chance to examine various personalities within a close-knit group. For this reason, the pictures have long held a special fascination for those who knew of their existence. But in the cloistered halls of the seminary where they hung, few people ever saw them...