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CADILLAC has ventured even farther along the high-compression road. Its 160-h.p. V-8 engine, most powerful in any G.M. car, has a 7.5-to-1 ratio, yet is 5 inches shorter and 215 pounds lighter than last year's. The mileage, 14 to a gallon, is 15% better. Last year, by introducing rear fenders with raised fins, Cadillac raised customers' brows. Now it has the satisfaction of seeing the style widely copied in G.M. cars...
...wind up the affair, Prosecutor Nogues recommended five years' imprisonment for Vergara, three years' banishment for Ibañez and fines of 50,000 pesos ($1,175) each. For the officers he asked lighter terms; for the noncoms, only two months' military arrest. At week's end President González, who knows a danger signal when he sees one, was pushing through Congress a 20% pay raise for the armed forces...
...Allegro's" Creator and Lyricist) has always been bad when he tries to say something deep, and always good when he lets his sense of humor creep in. And in line with this theory, all the scenes that most people appear to like best in "Allegro" are the lighter ones...
...which I bring up because I want to mention that these lighter scenes are not merely amusing. Some of them put music, dance, and chanting choruses together in 'ways that open up the entire musical comedy medium to new and stunning developments...
John Lund, as the stunt man who pretends to have lost his mind, manages to do a really excellent comedy job with only two (2) extraordinary expressions. The scene in which he casually ignites the living room curtains with someone's cigarette lighter is typical of "Miss Tatlock's Millions...