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Another sharp word of caution to dealers came from their own National Automobile Dealers Association. ''To sign a contract which results in a buyer owing more than his car is worth-at any time during the terms of the contract-is business suicide," said NADA's newsletter to members. "The minute a customer finds that his car is bringing less on the open market than his outstanding balance, the stage is set for another repossession.'' Moreover, said NADA, terms of three years or five years keep customers out of the market too long...
...fearing to be murdered by one of the king's henchmen, Slade has small thanks for his services to democracy. "Nada, Senor," says a philosophical waiter. "There is no importance." The waiter sums up the book well enough; even when turned upside down, given a dash of Psychopathia Sexualis and a medium-sad ending, these refugees from Graustark are still from Graustark...
Ulatistas had plenty of fight. "Nada nos atajard!" (Nothing will stop us!) screamed their mountain radio. Their leader, Planter Figueres, predicted the opening of new guerrilla fronts. Left to themselves, the rebels might win. But with Nicaragua behind the faltering government forces, and the Guatemalans doing their bit for the opposition, it looked as though Costa Rica, which Peru's Haya de la Torre had called "the Czechoslovakia of the Western Hemisphere," might instead become an international battleground on the pattern of civil-war Spain...
From 1932 to 1936, Patcèvitch did an expert trouble-shooting job on Paris Vogue (he was succeeded by Thomas Kernan, author of Paris on Berlin Time) and married London Vogue's beautiful Nada Jellibrand. When he returned to Manhattan, Condè Nast put him on the board of directors. Special Patcèvitch talents are: 1) social graces and fashionable tastes that blend perfectly with the smart world of Condè Nast Publications; 2) a canny head for business management. The second talent is the one that is most needed...