Word: minis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...time, tried to sprint across the strip, the big howitzer shells exploded in their midst. The gunners fired off 575 rounds during the battle, blistering the paint on the lone gun's barrel. Helicopter gunships laced the Viet Cong from above with their mini-guns, and Air Force jets made one screaming run after another, dropping anti-personnel bombs. The few Viet Cong who survived the lethal gauntlet to reach the strip's west side were caught in a murderous crossfire between the Special Forces camp and the subsector compound. Again, more than 100 Viet Cong died...
...flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman about an American screwball whose wife runs off with a Negro during a Riviera holiday. Jerry Orbach is perfectly cast as the husband, indiscriminately spraying comic vitriol at countless pet hates. Brenda Smiley is wriggly as a lass with a mini-mind and a Proustian remembrance of flings past...
...display at this year's round of European auto shows. Visitors to the Paris Auto Salon were entranced by the Toyota GT, which was James Bond's set of wheels in You Only Live Twice. And at the London show last week, crowds around Honda's mini-size line of cars were so dense that most of the curious visitors could not even get close enough to kick the tires...
...cars within twelve months. In France during the first nine months of this year, 2,307 Japanese cars were sold, compared with 182 for all of 1966. As in Britain, Honda is making a big splash, and has already taken 7,000 orders for its mini-series for delivery next year. And in Belgium, Toyota's Corolla, Crown and Corona models trebled last year's sales of 1,000 in the first nine months...
...course we are getting tough. It has taken us 50 years to build up our sales network, and we don't intend to give one inch on this vital issue." Especially grating is the fact that the little Japanese cars coming into Britain pay a 22% duty, while mini-size cars entering Japan...