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...standard cars. In addition, virtually every make will have a "pizazz" model (TIME, July 21) to satisfy the public's craving for bucket seats and floor-mounted manual gearshifts. All this diversity worries the automakers because it shaves their profits with higher manufacturing costs. Yet they are racing headlong into it in the hope that with a year of frank experimentation they can find one car size that suits the majority of buyers and around which they can stabilize future markets...
Burning Shoes. Ulbricht unwittingly was underscoring what every East German knows-and every refugee's escape mutely testifies to: that life is grim in East Germany and getting grimmer all the time. In its headlong efforts to emphasize heavy industry (East Germany is now the sixth largest industrial nation in the world), the regime has given short shrift to consumer goods. Buyers have to wait at least a year for delivery of refrigerators, up to two years for washing machines. Even the outrageously priced Wartburg car (selling in East Germany for $3,750, in West Germany...
...Twentieth Century (CBS, 6:30-7 p.m.). Patton and the Third Army follows the pistol-totin' general through North Africa to Sicily to Normandy and the headlong sprint to Germany. Mostly film clips, excellently edited...
...medicine matches any in the world and tops most-a fact that, wholesomely enough, leaves U.S. doctors eager to make it even better. To improve the distribution of good treatment, the organization of medicine is in a state of headlong change, from stressing the general practitioner and his elastic fee to stressing group practice by specialists with most costs prepaid. Last week the American Medical Association, a group not prone to accept change gladly, acknowledged the trend by installing as president a group-practice specialist who says that "medicine cannot be blind to social change...
...headlong rush, Quadros accepted help from anyone, including the Communists, who considered him a "useful innocent." But Quadros bragged, "They're not using me-I'm using them." The alliance ended in 1952 when the Reds demanded control of key departments as their price for support in São Paulo's mayoralty election. Quadros turned them down. In their wrath, the Communists tried to tie a capitalist can to Quadros with such epithets as "Wall Street stooge" and "the Esso candidate," did their best-as they have in every election since-to defeat him. Quadros took...