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Japanese cars range from three-wheel $650 midget cars and the $1,020 beetle-shaped Carol 360, made by Toyo Kogyo, to Nissan's squat, six-passenger, $3,750 Cedric, named after a character in the novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. The bestseller: Nissan's $1,566 Bluebird, named for "the bluebird of happiness" m the Maurice Maeterlinck play. Though these cars are rugged, functional and economical, they cannot compete in styling and roominess with most U.S. and European makes, which will be nearer to the Japanese prices when the tariffs are reduced...
...novels are about the adventures of the author in various disguises, and this one (in which he bears the name Duluoz) fills in the Kerouac chronicle for the period just before On the Road was published. As the novel begins, the author is finishing a two-month squat as a fire watcher on a mountain in Washington. The mountain across the valley from Kerouac's cabin, when seen from upside down, looks like a "hanging bubble in the illimitable ocean of space." Why is it seen from upside down? Because the author is doing a headstand...
...parade reached the county courthouse and the sheriff emerged--the short, squat man who, the day before, had donned a white cowboy hat, mounted a horse, and galloped through a-panicking band of Forman's pickers. He shook hands with King. The crowd cheered the triumph. "We Shall Overcome" rang one again, and then a chorus of "I Love Everybody in My Heart...
...trees," said one 16th century Spanish navigator, "you have reached Peru." The seacoast capital, Lima, is bigger than Detroit, and sleek modern skyscrapers crowd in on some of the most magnificent Spanish architecture this side of Madrid. Yet 400,000 of its 2,000,000 citizens squat in festering slums, among them the infamous Planeta, built next to a centuries-old garbage dump, where stony-faced Indians scrabble in the smoldering refuse...
...West for three decades. At times rash and impetuous, at times cooly rational, always active, aggressive, directing, he made his voice heard whether in power in the Commons, out of office from Chartwell, or in War over static-filled radio. And he prevailed. Despite the stooped shoulders, the squat figure, the pudgy features, we see him in a grand tableau of English history. He belongs on the field at Blenheim, on the deck of the Victory, in a hushed Commons because he believed he belonged there...