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Though Detroit calls them specialty cars, buyers refer to them more naturally as sports cars. With one available in just about any price range from Mustang's $2,461 to Eldorado's $6,277, young-in-heart drivers of all ages are snapping them up. Cougar has gone into overtime production to keep up with demand, and General Sales Manager Frank E. Zimmerman expects to sell 180,000 this model-year. Mustang, which opened up the market two years ago, continues to do better all the time; sales of 46,042 last month were 4,000 higher than...
Harold Wilson calls it redeployment of the labor force. Most Britons refer to it as redundancy. Whatever its euphemism, Wilson's tough plan to force British industries to modernize or die is beginning to be felt. The Labor Ministry announced last week that unemployment had risen 28.5%-to 437,229-since the middle of September...
Strengthened politically by what his detractors refer to as "the Bullet"-the shot that wounded Connally as he accompanied President Kennedy on the fatal motorcade in Dallas-the Gover nor has systematically squeezed liberals out of what few party posts they enjoyed. To U.S. Senator Ralph Yarborough, the liberals' Washington oracle, Connally is "the worst, most vindictive, most reactionary Governor in Texas history...
Government has taken thumbs-in-thedike measures against inflation. Finance Minister Anne Vondeling's newest budget calls for cutbacks on outlays for housing, defense and the age-old battle against the sea that the Dutch refer to as "water control." The government has also speeded up tax collections, raised gasoline and diesel-fuel taxes, and is keeping on an extra 1% tax on corporation profits initiated by an earlier government. But at the same time, the government, in various welfare programs, is spending more than ever. Next year, expenditures will exceed the current year's budget...
...parish church down the street; it is just as likely to be an unauthorized, experimental liturgy celebrated by a radical priest-friend in his own living room. Irreverence toward ecclesiastical tradition is common among Uncatholics. They tend to dismiss the veneration of Mary as irrelevant today and refer to the Mass as "the magic show." More seriously, these Catholics ask whether the church needs a Pope, or even whether the institutional church itself is necessary...