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...Shrine. Having been burned so badly with the ill-fated Edsel, whose styling it unaccountably failed to market research before its introduction, Ford this time conducted 14 studies on the Mustang, ranging from interviews with Monza owners to name and pricing studies. Its staff of 20, the industry's largest, found, among other things, that the car's outside appearance ranks first with the under-25 crowd and that four seaters are preferred 16-to-l among sports-car owners...
This nose is a shrine. It starts at the summit of her hive-piled hair and ends where a trombone hits the D below middle C. The face it divides is long and sad, and the look in repose is the essence of hound. She is about as pretty, in short, as Fanny Brice; but as she sings number after number and grows in the mind, she touches the heart with her awkwardness, her lunging humor, and a bravery that is all the more winning because she seems so vulnerable. People start to nudge one another and say, "This girl...
...crowded unmercifully into a room scarcely larger than a pool table. The boss pays his performers only food and carfare, and the constantly changing program denies them even the salve of star billing. To pure folk singers, though, the problems are minor, and the Studio has become a shrine that wins the affectionate services of such stars as Odetta, Bob Dylan and Pete Seeger when they pass through town. Bradley still has trouble explaining the source of his ambition. He gets a "re-truing" sense from folk songs, he says. But his success can be stated simply: for both audience...
...page history of the Memorial Drive area was sent yesterday to Secretary of the Interior Stewart L. Udall, following up a request that he declare the Drive a national historical shrine...
...Udall declares the Drive a historical shrine, it will block the construction of three proposed underpasses, and halt the attempt to destroy the parkway and turn it into an expressway...