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...19th century, it was rare to find a sailing ship that did not carry a Newfoundland for rescue work on the high seas. Lloyd's of London once presented a medal to a Newf who swam ashore with a line from a vessel foundering on the Nova Scotia coast, helping rescuers haul passengers and crew to safety. Newfoundlands are still used as lifeguards on beaches in France. Their fitness for such work was proved on no less a near drowning victim than Napoleon...
More important to Detroit than the subcompact trade-which, while growing fast, still accounts for just a bit more than 10% of U.S. sales-is the market for mid-size vehicles. This broad bracket, embracing compacts (such as Chevrolet's Nova and Buick's Skylark) as well as intermediates (Chevrolet's Chevelle, Ford's LTD II) and what the industry chooses to call luxury small intermediates (Chrysler's Le Baron and Diplomat), is accounting for 54% of all U.S. auto sales this year. By contrast, the traditional standard or full-size cars now account...
...jazz highlight of this weekend is 30 minutes out of town. Bossa nova master Stan Getz is bringing his tenor sax and his quartet to Sandy Berman's Jazz Revival in Beverly (54 Cabot St., 922-7515) through July 3. In addition to regular evening sets, the Getz quartet will play a special Sunday matinee from 4-7 p.m. Monday night traditional jazzmen Dave Whitney and Reggie Phillips take over...
Robert L. Stanfield, Member of Parliament from Halifax, Nova Scotia, and former Leader of the Opposition, cited historical precedents for Canada's language problems. "Traditionally, when you have two languages, you have a problem," he said last week singling out the Basque drive for independence from Spain as an example...
Brazil's music makes rich use of its mixed national heritage: samba, conga, bossa nova and salsa mingle with rock and jazz influences from European groups. But today, musicians like Ben or his equally popular and more jazz-oriented contemporary Milton Nascimento are being enjoyed by the gringos who used either to sneer at "torrid-fun-in-the-sun rnythms" or water-down tangos for lounge lizards...