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...Russians still remember the life-saving performance of the 362,000 American trucks that they received during World War II under Lend-Lease. Oldtimers also recall that in 1930, under the original Henry Ford, the company helped the Soviets build a plant that for a while turned out the Model A. The Soviets now are getting ready to build a $2.2 billion automotive plant in the Tatar Republic between Moscow and the Urals; they say that it may become the world's largest truck factory (the biggest so far was opened by Ford Motor last August in Louisville...
Handy began talking about girl jockeys. "I call 'em jockettes," he said laughingly. "They lend color to the races. I don't mind if they compete, but I don't think they're too much competition. It's a boy's game. I don't think they're strong enough to handle a rogue who lugs in and out. They get along okay with easy riders, though." Handy waved to a woman in the next section of box seats. "Hi, honey," he called...
...situation only seemed to lend a sense of increased urgency to the task of the Crimson varsity, and when Harvard jumped off to a quick three-seat lead right off the stakeboat, the race was already decided...
With no apparent basis, Dormann claimed the support of President Johnson. He also tossed the first names of Government officials around so freely that he persuaded prominent figures to lend their endorsements. More significantly, he managed to raise $800,000 by 1967, partly by leading some donors to believe that they would receive invitations to dine at the White House. Most of the money was spent on the mansion. Dormann even coaxed Manhattan's celebrity restaurant, "21," into helping to equip a lavish kitchen, ostensibly for sating presidential appetites...
Thanks primarily to the considerable charm of the two leading players, the characters never get lost. Belmondo's boyish bravura and Annie Girardot's wily sexuality lend substance to a plot as insubstantial as California sunshine. The lovers first meet on the set of a Hollywood film in which she plays the lead. He has been commissioned to write a suitably romantic score "with a lot of fiddles." Prolonged transatlantic phone calls to their respective mates serve only to increase the passion of an affair begun as a kind of mutual convenience. Their first night together is amusing...