Word: slights
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Motors was the big loser, partly because it handled the safety squabble badly and partly because, with more models than anyone else, it had merely face-lifted, instead of restyling. Its January-July unit sales dropped from 2,829,527 to 2,610,696. This more than offset slight gains by Chrysler (up from 818,977 to 837,391, thanks mostly to its "intermediate"-sized Belvedere and Coronet) and by Ford (up from 1,438,247 to 1,439,620, almost entirely because of the Mustang). Profits were down: G.M. reported its second-quarter figure fell...
Presumably the right side of Coe's brain made some, but only a slight, contribution to these functions before his operation. Now, Dr. Smith believes, Coe's faculties are improving as the right hemisphere tries to take over, just as one lung or one kidney compensates for the loss of the other. What Dr. Smith finds most encouraging is that this process has gone so far in a patient so many years beyond childhood. While VA doctors concede that Coe's considerable recovery may be a fluke, they believe that hemispherectomy deserves further investigation; because, for patients...
...transatlantic travel, should thrive. With unusual candor, Sir Basil Smallpeice, chairman of the Cunard group since November, recently stated the dimensions of adversity. Passenger operations have lost $40 mil lion in the past five years. Cargo ship ments and other sources of revenue turned the loss into a slight profit, but, said Sir Basil, Cunard has only been kept going by the sale of investments and property and by tax recoveries...
...asked to impersonate plucky, romantic dream girls for years to come. Confronted by an office pal while a couple of drowsy strangers storm her bathroom one morning, she dryly quips: "The others don't get up until noon." Altogether, Don't Run is champion-class drollery-slight, stylish, graceful, and abrim with evidence that Hollywood's honorable high-comedy traditions are being well preserved...
Eternal Eros. Pure Freudians are rare nowadays, but Brown is so worshipful that he applies Freudian interpretations where Freud never reached. He justifies this by seeing Freud as a Columbus who had time to go so far on uncharted seas and no farther. Some times Brown makes slight alterations in Freud's pioneering map when he feels it is necessary, but more often he exalts him. Says he in Love's Body: "There is only one political problem in our world today: the unification of mankind. That they may be one-ut unum sint. This is Christ...