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...station attendant looked at us sort of funny when we drove up in the Jaguar Namo had hot-wired, and his eyebrows almost disappeared over the top of his forehead when Namo asked where in New England we were. I think the attendant must have tipped someone off about the car, because once we were on the highway we started passing state police cars cruising at high speed with their lights on and their sirens wailing and the officers inside gesticulating madly at us. Madly? Did I say madly? It's relative...
Long after you have forgotten the skinny little kid living macho fantasies in the cockpit of the MG Midget or the paunchy men pretending they are seriously considering the Jaguar, and long after all the slimy automotive marketing hype has slipped from your mind, one sad image from the auto show stays with...
Wilmot's woes started in 1973, when a small Texas outfit that installs navigation and communications systems in Gulfstreams accused Page of trying to take over its lucrative business by, among other tactics, bribing one of its executives with $30,000 and the use of a Jaguar sports car. Last October Page was ordered by a U.S. court to pay the Texas firm $9 million in damages for trying to monopolize the Gulfstream outfitting business. Page is appealing that decision, but testimony at the trial about other Page activities has led to more trouble for Wilmot...
...their armed forces and reserves, including 41,000 national guardsmen, who are not considered front-line troops. Their air force consists of five squadrons of American-made F-5Es and obsolescent British Lightnings of 1950s vintage. Their navy consists of a converted U.S. Coast Guard cutter, three Jaguar-class PT boats and a few other bits of flotsam and jetsam. When they look south, the Saudis are alarmed by the rising Soviet influence across the Red Sea in Ethiopia, where there are now 16,000 Cuban soldiers supporting the leftist regime in Addis Ababa, and about 1,000 Russians...
...which Irish Protestant Playwright Parker moves and sometimes mires his play is that the bicycle stands for sweet-souled individual freedom and the automobile for arrogant mass tyranny. Frank says at one point: "Christ on a bicycle-you can see that. You can't see Him driving a Jaguar...