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...cars, as originally planned, Edsel is now aimed at the low-priced buyer. Ford switched Edsel's price range from last year's $2,300-$3,489 to $2,320-$2,807 by dropping two of last year's higher-priced models (the Citation and the Pacer), thus bringing Edsel down into the price range of the top series of the Big Three's lowest-priced cars. Also slashed: accessories prices, e.g., $175 for automatic transmission v. last year's $215. In line with the trend to fewer models (see Too Many Models), Ford also...
...alternates, hand-picked from among Britain's best sailors after spring tryouts. Skipper Stan Bishop, 56, a professional yacht captain and a lieutenant commander in the Royal Navy during World War II, won his job by disconcertingly outsailing Sceptre in trials off Cowes, at the wheel of a pacer yacht, Evaine. Glamour boy is husky Helmsman Mann, 34, a blond bachelor lieutenant commander, whose nose is gloriously bent from a schooldays boxing match. A friend of the Duke of Edinburgh, Mann was once sailing master for the royal family, finished third in the 1956 Olympics 5.5-meter-class competition...
...Medium-Price Class. Oldsmobile 88, 19.2377; De Soto Firedome, 18.9471; Edsel Pacer, 19.2518; Pontiac Super Chief, 18.8017; Edsel Pacer, 19.0052; Mercury Montclair, 18.1621; Buick Special. 16.9445; Dodge Custom Royal 500, 17.8137; Dodge Custom Royal 500, 17.5490; Studebaker President...
Passing the three-quarter pole in his race for governor, New Jersey Republican Malcolm Forbes was joined last week by a seasoned political pacer. "Think of the news it would make," said Vice President Nixon, "if Malcolm Forbes won. We had a little election in Wisconsin-one the Republicans would like to forget.* An upset gave inspiration to the Democratic Party. An upset here would prove to Republicans all over the country that it can be done." On the chance that it could, Nixon toured seven key counties, made eight full-dress speeches, shook as many hands as he could...
...room, $23,000 clinic, the finest in the area, financed by gifts from grateful patients and summer visitors. There were plenty of speeches, but after the ceremony Dr. Heath could hardly wait to celebrate in his usual fashion when something makes him particularly happy-he dances his Tri-Pacer over the blue waters...