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Three reporters in the 1971 chartreuse Pinto belonging to the Milwaukee Journal's Jack Kole sped up to the White House following Ford's address to Congress. They wanted a text of the speech. "We are going to test the Administration's new openness," the Chicago Daily News's Peter Lisagor told the guard. "Can we drive in?" The police officer checked, was told it was okay. They drove up West Executive Avenue, sometimes called Limousine Alley, finding a parking space in slots reserved for the Vice President. They got the text, went off into...
...wary camps. On the one side there are the 120 developing countries, ranging in size from China (pop. 800 million) to the South Pacific island state of Nauru (pop. 6,500). They see Caracas as a grand divvying up of the oceans' wealth: a "unique opportunity," as C.R. Pinto of Sri Lanka (formerly Ceylon) puts it, "to augment their meager national resources with none of the unpleasant connotations of 'economic aid.' " They argue that the law Grotius wrote in a maritime era gives an unfair advantage to developed nations in a technological era. Continuation of the status...
...women were conspicuously absent from construction crews. Now it doesn't seem like it matters much what sex the person is who waves a flag to direct cars around road construction. But it sure appears to make a big difference to some people. A group of men in a Pinto were run off a single lane detour road into soft sand this week when they steamed right past a long line of cars being held by a flagwoman at a construction site in New Hampshire. For some reason, they didn't believe the young woman as she tried to tell...
...people give you things," says Tanya genially. "Western belts. A white monster of a truck I call Moby Dick. And a man from South Dakota gave me a new breed of cow with a talent for putting weight on fast. A doctor in Houston promised me a pinto quarter horse if I would just stay the same and not get stuck up for two years. I've got about eight months to go now before I can go back to him and say 'See, I'm just the same. Where's my horse...
...months rose 30% in the U.S., a market that accounts for one-third of all Beetle sales worldwide. The port-of-entry price of a Super Beetle in the U.S., without options or accessories, is $2,849, compared with a basic $2,442 for a similarly stripped-down Ford Pinto. It is a fact that U.S. and Japanese competitors have been quick to exploit-Ford TV ads, for instance, hammer away at price comparisons between the Super Beetle and the Pinto-and during the first quarter this year U.S. sales of Volkswagens plummeted...