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From the day it started rolling off the assembly line in 1927, the Ford Model A was a tremendous hit-a $500 automobile with a dependable four-cylinder engine and what then seemed low-slung, sleek lines. Cars have changed more than a little in the succeeding half-century, but that has only enhanced the Model A's nostalgic allure; its wire wheels, arching mudguards and stubby body give it the jaunty appeal of an old boulevardier. In fact, a restored Model A today sells for as much...
Scrambler Phone. He also seemed very exuberant about some of the perquisites that go with his new job. When Gerald Ford dispatched a sleek Air Force 707 to Albany, Ga., to carry Carter on the 26-minute flight to St. Simons Island, the President-elect said boyishly: "That's what I've been waiting for." The aircraft had been used as one of several Air Force One presidential jets; it was the plane aboard which L.B.J. took the oath of office after John Kennedy's assassination in Dallas. Carter roamed the plane in a cardigan sweater...
...tall, husky man whose use of profanity is limited to an occasional G-rated "damn," Card Walker occupies an unpretentious office on the Disney lot not far from Dopey Drive and Mickey Avenue. His only concessions to the Hollywood movie mogul image are tinted glasses and a sleek gray Porsche (license plate: CARWIN...
Symbolic of the times is the change in the skyscraper itself. During the 1960s, the standard tower looked like a shoebox set on end. Now this sleek but rarely stimulating slab is out of style. Replacing it is a completely new series of high-rise shapes and configurations: ribbed, faceted, angled, notched and cylindrical. Like them or not, they create a skyline full of visual excitement...
...Green Line's problem is that it really isn't a subway at all. It's more a glorified trolley line and its crowded, jerky electrified buses can't compare with the sleek trains of the other lines. And it's a shame too, because the Green Line has some of the best stations and routes in the system. The Copley Square station is probably the best looking from the outside, with its iron grillwork, blending well with the general atmosphere of the Square...