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...Regarding new imported-car registrations in your table headed "How They Sold" [Jan. 17], we of the British Motor Corp. have been decidedly pleased with our pace in the past year but did not realize it was so rapid as to be completely invisible...
...most dangerous time comes while sitting in a parked car with the motor running and the windows closed. This is a frequent occurrence in cold weather when the auto heater is turned on. To avoid possible poisoning, the motorist should always open a window when parked with the motor running...
...builders use: in the U.S. most of them use "crawler" cranes that clog streets and growl angrily under the strain of hoisting a load; in Europe, construction men have learned over the past decade to employ the self-mounting "tower" crane, which is powered by a quietly humming electric motor instead of a diesel, operates off the street-usually from the center of a building going up-and climbs along with the superstructure...
...photographers crashed one of the Pope's private meetings with Patriarch Athenagoras I, scuffled boisterously for position while the two religious leaders stared in surprise. Outside the walled Garden of Gethsemane, police had to pull prying newsmen from ladders. One freelance U.S. photographer managed to sneak an automatic, motor-driven camera into the tomb in Jerusalem's Church of the Holy Sepulcher, where Paul had gone to pray...
Idle Cash. The company that is introducing stocks to the Argentine boondocks is the Deltec organization, a many-faceted (paints, petrochemicals, motor scooters), hemisphere-ranging investment house that specializes in Latin American finance. Deltec set up and controls an affiliate known as Valardel, formed to tap idle cash in the hinterlands, where owners have had little to invest in except land. Deliberately staying out of the big cities and concentrating on rural customers, Valardel has sold stocks in twelve Argentine companies, including a steelworks, several auto firms and a paper maker...