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...most important, can run only 50 miles or so before they must be recharged. So far, those drawbacks have been fatal to the development of any large market. Since the early 1900s, the electric vehicle has been limited to such specialty uses as the beetle-like golf carts that purr around the nation's fairways. Now that recent gasoline shortages have forced Americans to take a second look at their cars, at least four companies are gearing up for another try at developing a broader market. Before the year is out they will start manufacturing the first over...
Jukeboxes have filled American honky-tonks, malt shops and ears for decades, inspiring songs ("Put an-other nickel in, in the nick-el-o-de-on"), and even a modest treasury of jokes (Sample: Two Martians sidle up to a glittering jukebox in a saloon and purr, "What's a nice girl like you doing in a place like this?"). The pop-music beat goes on, but the coin-operated phonograph business is winding down. Last week Chicago's Wurlitzer Co., which has sold 650,000 jukeboxes in the U.S. since 1933, announced that it will stop manufacturing...
Sears was called to the stand by federal prosecutors, who are attempting to prove that Mitchell, once Nixon's top political strategist, and Stans, who raised the money that made the campaigns purr, had struck the sleaziest of bargains with a notorious financial manipulator, Robert Vesco. The Securities and Exchange Commission has charged that Vesco was the central figure in perpetrating a $224 million stock fraud, the largest single case in SEC history. In its case against Mitchell and Stans, the Government argues that Vesco made a secret, illegal contribution of $200,000 in cash to the President...
...strained pseudopoetic rhetoric and portentous declamatory style remind one of Maxwell Anderson scaling his molehills of dramatic verse. An intermittent sidebar monologue features an innocuous-looking Manson-family girl casually relating the horrors of the Sharon Tate murders with a lubriciously contented purr. Together with the repeated cue name of My Lai and references to the slaughter of innocents, of whom Iphigenia is the first, Rabe's intent is clear to the point of didactic overkill-to make the curse and crimes of the House of Atreus appear to be the inevitable pattern of all human behavior...
...major North Vietnamese cities, only Hanoi has escaped extensive bomb damage. Although military targets around the city's perimeter are pounded daily, visitors report that an almost Continental charm survives in the city's center. The purr of Czech motorbikes and the chatter of lovers drinking Bulgarian wine beside Lake Hoan Kien lend color to the clean but dour city. All factories and warehouses have been relocated deep inside dense forests to the west and south of the city...