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Today, all four automakers have still smaller cars on the way to market. Called "subcompacts" for want of a better name, they are designed to compete directly in size and price with Volkswagens, Toyotas and Datsuns-just as the compacts were originally introduced in the 1950s to counter rising sales...
The years passed. The books dutifully appeared, the promise was brilliantly maintained, an assured expectation. But like all crown princes kept waiting too long, Auden suddenly went from being considered promising to being considered a little passe.
Mrs. Nixon paid no attention, and in an unprecedented maneuver hailed by budget-minded women the world over, wore the dress at least twice more in public, instead of handing it over straightaway to the Smithsonian Institution. Miss Treyz explained mildly: "The Nixons are middle-American people who don'...
This need to direct attention toward changing attitudes rather than changing official policies produces a strong proclivity toward ever greater levels of violence. To wrench emotions, an action must be dramatic; to be dramatic, it must be unique; to be unique in America in 1969 it is increasingly necessary to...
So most Harvard freshmen are left with very little to do. There are always drugs, of course. As long as you're not a flagrant pusher. Harvard will keep you safe from the nares. (In fact, I'm sure many an administrator welcomed the advent of grass as one way...