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...models-and the dearth of sales-has put new zest into that great American game: the battle of wits between car seller and buyer. Once the customer's main interest was in car quality and dealer reliability, and he bargained halfheartedly. Today's customer is sharper, shrewder, better informed. He knows that dealers are overstocked with cars and anxious to sell. Detroit has egged him on with the great registration battle between Ford and Chevrolet; in the last few years dealers have been forced to cut profits drastically just to move their cars. The first question a buyer...
...somewhat sharper note was struck by Werner Baer, Instructor in Economics. Baer, who spent several years in a concentration camp, expresses the same tension between technicality and outrage, but resolves it in favor of outrage. "I realize," he says, "that there are a lot of legal questions. I also realize that a lot of old hates are going to be stirred up by the trial. Maybe it would be better not to stir them up. But somehow my sense of poetic justice is too strong...
...have to, for in training Patterson's left appeared sharper than ever before. At 195 lbs., he was heavier than in the past, but had lost none of his speed. For the most part, he has learned to fight out of a stable stance instead of bouncing about like a kangaroo, as he did for years. When word of Ingo's "new left" reached him, Patterson took the news seriously. "Ingemar's real sneaky," he said. "He'll have something new for me. I'll have to do likewise...
...whole panorama of settings. To the English-speaking world, Faust is best known, outside opera, in Marlowe's fitfully magnificent Dr. Faustus. But as Georg Brandes once noted, where Marlowe's Faust, loving power, craves omnipotence on earth, Goethe's, loving wisdom, seeks omniscience. Power inspires sharper drama than knowledge, particularly for those without the German to follow Faust's speculations and soliloquizings. Goethe's Mephistopheles, on the other hand, boasts some of the internationalism of Hell. Less fiend than cold-blooded mocker and cynic, he is full of wit and mischief, and Gustaf...
...Rock-'n'-Roller Paul Anka, causing $25,000 worth of damage before airport crews cooled them off with a riot hose. But Anka, who affects boyish dignity and grey flannel suits, looks like a Boston banker compared to the Chileans' own pride, a character in far sharper threads who bills himself as Peter Rock. An exponent of the guitar-whanging, hip-swiveling school, Rock packs them into the smoky dens, where colericos meet to beat, and is said to lead a powerful pack of toughs himself...