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...drive is to get a bigger share of that market-as well as the smaller, fast-expanding markets in Australia, Asia and Africa. U.S. automakers realize that their U.S.-made cars are generally too big, costly and thirsty for countries where import duties, taxes and gasoline prices are skyhigh. Last year, in the world's increasing markets, the U.S. exported only 117,000 cars, little more than half the 1955 total. Detroit has come to believe that the best way to compete abroad is to build foreign cars, with foreign workers, in foreign plants. Says Henry Ford II, president...
Spreading his impeccable tails, Hale has ridden the art boom skyhigh. "If something happens in San Francisco," he murmurs confidently, "it will usually cross my desk within a week. I know all the able artists who can give valuable opinions on new art. The rise in pictures I have bought is phenomenal; the market has moved up with me, you know...
...than a century ago his clansmen enthusiastically followed the Emperor's orders by opening fire on all foreign ships passing through Shimonoseki Strait, the narrow western entrance to the lovely Inland Sea. Retaliation came from a combined British, French, Dutch and U.S. fleet, which blew the Choshu batteries skyhigh, put ashore a landing party to seize the forts, and collected an indemnity of $3,000,000.-Impressed, the Choshu leaders fraternized with the Western officers, begged technical advice and sought to buy big guns like those that had destroyed their forts. Observes a present-day Japanese intellectual...
...likes to ski, takes his Scotch with water. When Lincoln's town fathers refused Explosives Expert Kistiakowsky a permit to dynamite some stumps on his acreage, he flashed the Manhattan Project Medal for Merit citation awarded him by President Truman, got a green light-and blew the stumps skyhigh...
...creating them," says San Francisco Social Worker Janet Pence, who recently retired her 1951 Hudson in favor of a pale blue Volkswagen. "When it became difficult to park downtown, we were greeted each year with a longer car. When the price of gas and oil went skyhigh, we were asked to buy gas guzzlers. Well, we plan to become a two-car family soon, just as Detroit advises. But we're getting another Volkswagen...