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Into Intermediate. General Motors figures that it has another trend spotted in the sales success of Ford's inter mediate-sized Fairlane, which is in a niche between the compacts and standard-sized cars. G.M.'s Chevrolet Divi sion is readying an elegant, all-new intermediate car that it is tentatively calling the Chevelle. Buick, Oldsmobile and Pontiac will upgrade their compacts to intermediate size, making many of their parts interchangeable with those of the Chevelle. Ford, on the other hand, is apparently tired of the trend it started: it will drop the intermediate Meteor from its Mercury...
Perhaps the most perfect captive audience in all America is the one that steps into an elevator, watches the door slide shut, and then listens to a piped-in ver sion of Surrey with the Fringe...
What Europe's youth is looking for is a truly New Europe united by the values of her common heritage, based on the principles of democracy, strong enough to fulfill her historic task: to overcome the dreadful divi sion of this Continent...
...guide to the amount of fat in the blood, it is a crude and unreliable measure: it varies with exercise and whatever drugs the patient may have taken; it depends on whether he has been nibbling snacks or eating three meals a day. It changes with his emotional ten sion (how worried is he about this test?), and even with the amount of tourniquet pressure on his arm when the nurse draws a blood sample...
...presidential assistant, tried several drafts. Another former Harvard professor, Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (now Ambassador to India) contributed a memo. Presidential Aide Ted Sorensen, a longtime Kennedy speechwriter, put together a separate draft, which, with some sprinklings from Schlesinger and Galbraith, became the basis of the final ver sion. Kennedy himself devoted hours to rewriting the speech, and he was still jotting away on the speaker's platform at Yale when the moment came for him to step forward...