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...biggest jolt for Americans who plan to travel extensively abroad is the cost of intra-European airplane tickets and the use of a car. The tourist who has flown from New York City to London for $138 finds that he must pay $575 for a round-trip economy flight from England to Athens. In Germany, where the visitor might expect to rent a small Mercedes-Benz 200 for a reasonable sum, he will find that it costs $82.60 a day, plus 30? per kilometer, plus gas, which can cost $1.75 per gal. on an autobahn. Obviously, the U.S. tourist needs...
...Fairmont is a stellar seller. Ford's lacocca puts himself in the position of a price-conscious buyer who has been out of the market for a few years and then visits a showroom to do some tire kicking. Says he sympathetically, "It's a jolt to see what...
Nowhere in Hanson's work, once the first frisson of encounter has worn off - as, inevitably, it does - can one feel that an organizing, selective imagination has been intelligently brought to bear on its raw material. Instead we are offered a basic theatrical package, a quick jolt to the sense of reality which, unlike the pleasures of more organized or complex art, fails to renew itself. It all ends up as Norman Rockwell in 3-D and grimy jeans, minus the period optimism: not contemptible, but not the stuff of which anything but il lustration can be made . Robert...
Having dedicated much of his life to perfecting his basketball skills, learning that he would not be able to play again this year came as a monumental jolt for Irion. He was hoping to play basketball in Europe during the summer and had hoped to be drafted by an NBA team...
...Sometimes we have to give them a jolt," says Dennis DeJoinville, who recently left his position of vice chairman of the program when he was transferred to another prison. "One of them will say 'how much time you doing?' I'll ask, 'how old are you?' The kid will say he's 14. I'll say 'I been here since you were nine.' That has an impact." So do the occasional tours each youth takes through the filthy cell blocks...