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...booming; Cadillac's $12,479 "international size" Seville helped carry total Cadillac sales to an alltime monthly record of 25,000 cars in July. But standard-sized cars are gathering dust on dealer lots, because the swing of more budget-conscious buyers to smaller, lighter models that are stingier on gas is developing more quickly than Detroit had expected. This year for the first time, small cars have captured more than 50% of the market...
...many suddenly rich people, Jack's attitude toward money swivels wildly. Anjelica just got a Mercedes for her 23rd birthday. According to Mike Nichols, Nicholson always has "several thousand bucks out" to help friends over some rough spots. But Roman Polanski says that at other times Nicholson is "stingier than W.C. Fields." Once at Maxim's, Nicholson fought for and won the $600 check. When he found that one of his dinner companions could have taken care of the bill as a business expense, he was miserable...
...success has been its outstanding senior goalie George McPhee, who has allowed only 1.7 goals per game. Harvard's seven goals against Brown's goal tender Mark Burns demonstrated that its forwards can score on a top flight goalie, but McPhee, with his strong defense, will be much stingier tonight...
...fighter from the start. She fought her father because he was stingy. She fought her grandfather, who owned 20 farms, because he was even stingier. After a delicious sneak into Altoona to see Ethel Barrymore in Captain Jinks of the Horse Marines, Elda (then 17) fought her way out of the family, once & for all, and headed for Manhattan and the stage. She brought with her from Hollidaysburg two permanent assets: her talons, and an inviolable core of Quaker staidness. "Hedda," says a friend, "is a Quaker from the mouth down...
Collectively, the Varsity finished second in the League in team fielding with an average of .952 or only 22 errors out of 457 total chances. The Elis were stingier, however, made but 14 errors out of 456 TC, and led the League in that department with an average...