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...picked up speed, the whales sounded. When they came up again, they were heading out to sea, and a deck hand fired a rifle shot to turn them. A red signal flag went up the mast as the whales changed course. Out from the shore came a fleet of motor skiffs and rowboats, ready for work...
...news to me ... I certainly don't approve ... It seems to me to be unfair publicity." The New York Herald Tribune carried Ogilvy's idea to its logical conclusion: "Can't you just picture the diplomat going through life turning in his car for a motor-scoot and sending Junior to Harvard? Then a switch to a bike and away goes daughter to finishing school...
...London's Motor Show last week, the cars that drew the biggest crowds were the racy, low-slung sport models. None got more attention than Jaguar's fast, sleek XK120, which for three years has held the world's speed record (132.6 m.p.h.) for passenger cars. But it was more than speed that made Britons admire the Jaguar; as the Manchester Guardian noted proudly, the Jaguar is "doing a roaring dollar trade." It is now one of the British motor industry's biggest dollar earners...
...demand is so great that Jaguar Motors Ltd. last week opened a sprawling new 1,000,000-sq.-ft. plant at Coventry to boost production from 720 to 1,000 cars a month. Jaguar is aiming three-fourths of this production at the dollar market. Moreover, it is concentrating on its Mark 7 sedan angled especially toward American and Canadian tastes and powered with the same motor as its speedy XK-120 roadster. Where Jaguar sold 2,886 cars in the U.S. last year, this year it will sell 4,000 at around $4,000 each, next year expects...
Hopper is convinced that a change of party is necessary in order for this country to carry out its mission. He likened American democracy to "a convertible whose body and motor are sound, but whose top leaks because of long exposure and wear." He said that a new top is needed "until it too begins to leak...