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Ford is rolling out five new cars. The Mustang takes on a retro look that borrows more heavily from its classic, late-'60s designs. Loyal fans could easily drive sales as high as 200,000 a year once production begins this fall. It's a modest goal for the former blockbuster, but as Ford says, "We can't rely on any home runs to pull us through...
...Some things are more tightly controlled than others,” he said. “We know that the library’s planning to cut their expenditures. We know that faculty salaries grew at a very modest rate. We knew that department expenditures are being held either at no growth or very modest growth...
From Milan boardrooms to Parma dairy farms, Calisto Tanzi has long been viewed as the model Italian entrepreneur: hardworking, successful, modest, pious and, above all, generous. Over the past four decades, as he built dairy company Parmalat into a worldwide giant with annual sales of €7.6 billion, he showered his hometown of Parma with his philanthropy. Tanzi helped pay for a major restoration of Parma's theater and 11th century basilica. He poured cash into the local soccer team, making it one of Europe's best, and financed programs for the poor, aids patients and drug addicts. Last February...
DIED. ALAN BATES, 69, bluff, beguiling English actor; in London. A modest giant bestriding nearly a half-century of excellence, the Derbyshire lad co-starred at age 22 in the original London stage production of Look Back in Anger. But the Angry Young Man tag never quite fit Bates' protean gifts. As a charming killer in Nothing but the Best or a Jewish prisoner in The Fixer, wrestling nude in Women in Love or incarnating the lonely spy Guy Burgess in An Englishman Abroad, he brought strength, delicacy, wit and humanity to each role. In films, he often chaperoned showier...
...notorious though little-seen calendar nude she had posed for a few years earlier. According to Joe Goldberg?s 1967 book ?Big Bunny: The Inside History of Playboy,? Hefner had bought that photo (with its color separations) and a batch of others for $5,000. For that modest amount he got not only fabulous publicity for his first issue but the next year?s worth of centerfold photos. Only at the end of 1954 did he start assigning ?original art? from such cheesecake shutterbugs as Russ Meyer and Bunny Yeager. Even then, Hefner was like Columbus in the New World...