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...paths, starting as a young man in 1906 when he sailed along the French explorer's routes off Nova Scotia and down the New England coast, growing more and more admiring as he remarked how accurate Champlain's soundings and descriptions of such harbors as Plymouth and Gloucester still were after 300 years. In case anyone should doubt, Morison reproduces many of Champlain's highly decorative as well as informative charts, and some of the great explorer's fine sketches of such things as Indian attacks and French settlements. The drawings seem remarkably realistic, although...
Even as the U.S. nears the venerable age of 200, there lingers the colonist's sense of style lost, of some fragile wine of culture that did not travel well to Plymouth Rock and Jamestown. 'Europeans know how to live', goes the American cliché. Many Europeans might quarrel with that assertion, but there are nonetheless the beginnings of an instructive debate on preserving and enhancing life-styles in the Old World. It turns on the concept of what some call the bonheur national brut, or gross national happiness, an index of the quality of life...
...automakers created a new breed of small, racy, relatively inexpensive "sports compact" cars for young and old alike. The first of the new group, the Ford Mustang, made a fast breakaway in 1964. It was rapidly followed by competing cars whose names evoked feelings of adventure and even danger: Plymouth's Barracuda, Chevrolet's Camaro, Pontiac's Firebird, American Motors' Javelin, Mercury's Cougar, and the Dodge Charger (later called the Challenger). Soon the sports compacts grabbed almost 11% of the nation's car market, and souped-up "muscle" versions were introduced...
...auto insurers, ran a series of head-on test crashes at 40 to 50 m.p.h. Each collision pitted a small car against a larger model produced by the same U.S. manufacturer: a Chevrolet Vega against an Impala, a Ford Pinto against a Galaxie, a Dodge Colt against a Plymouth Fury, an American Motors Gremlin against an Ambassador...
...What if Thayer's unusual request that he be appointed to preside at the trial had been denied, especially since he had also been the presiding judge at the Plymouth trial at which Vanzetti was convicted of an earlier robbery...