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...Similarly, while General Motors suffered a 6.8% overall sales decline, Cadillac's sales were up 5%. For Pontiac, benefiting from the popularity of its intermediate Tempest, it was the fifth straight year of record sales. The big G.M. loser (off 11%) was Chevrolet, which held on to a slender 2,145,000-to-2,006,474 sales lead over the rival Ford Division. Ford itself sold 18,000 fewer cars than...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Autos: Retreat from the Record | 1/13/1967 | See Source »

...vocal cords of a Southern noncom - is a superpatriot who treats the American flag like a family heirloom. Nonetheless, her "smell" sends Benjamin into an aphrodizzying spin. Trying feverishly to free his writer from this sexual block, Perkins soon follows his own nose to the selfsame love. On this slender plot line, the playwright has hung some Simon-pure comedy of the inane, the illogical and the absurd. His natively quirky touch is evident when Benjamin attempts to escort the girl bedward with the line, "This is a citizen's arrest." But every so often the gags...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Simple Simon | 12/30/1966 | See Source »

Hypnosis v. Free Will. For a time, Prosecutor Vincent Keuper had his innings. His first and best witness was Marjorie Farber, still attractive at 52, who testified that she had a hypnosis-induced passion for the dark, slender anesthesiologist. After he first mesmerized her in February 1963 in order to break her cigarette habit, they saw each other "constantly." Later, she testified, Coppolino said of her husband: "That man has got to go." Then, she went on, the doctor gave her a drug with which to dispatch Farber. Her nerve failed twice, she said, and so she summoned Coppolino from...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Trials: One Down | 12/23/1966 | See Source »

Nevertheless, Chichester set sail aboard the $84,000 two-masted yacht, which was rigged as a ketch for ease in handling by one man. Named after the De Havilland plane that Chichester had once piloted around the Pacific, the slender-beamed Gipsy Moth was outfitted for comfort. In his quarters were a galley designed by his wife, a red upholstered chair with a safety belt and a radio transmitter by which to report his weekly progress to two London newspapers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: High Seas: With the Moan of the Wind And a Barrel of Beer | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

...Oahu's 109 resort hotels lies along the graceful crescent that stretches west from Diamond Head. Henry Kaiser's 900-room Hilton Hawaiian Village on Waikiki boasts the best bikini watching in the islands; just beyond it, the ebullient Chinese-Hawaiian multimillionaire Chinn Ho has erected the slender, glassy new $27 million Ilikai, with condominium apartments, shops, offices and a rooftop lounge that draws even the kamaainas (oldtimers) from Honolulu...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Travel: On to the Outer Islands | 12/16/1966 | See Source »

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