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...that the driver has time to reach a garage. In doing no more than that, the company would have been following ample precedent. G.M., for example, will replace only a few of the defective Chevy motor mounts with new ones that cost $30 each. Instead, it in effect will strap in most engines by installing wire "restraints" that cost only $5 each...
...telling them how to cancel their sales contracts. They urged the telephone company to cut off service to a firm that put a misleading ad in the Yellow Pages. Eventually, Schrag reports, "we had an impressive array of electronic gadgetry," including a tiny microphone that hooked onto a bra strap. "One hazard of a very young law-enforcement staff," observed Schrag wryly, was that the first time the device was to be used "our investigator forgot to wear...
...wants an injunction to keep him 100 yds. away from her). In direct examination, Jackie told of sneaking out back doors and down dark streets in futile attempts to avoid Galella's "harassing" maneuvers-"grunting" and "lunging" with his camera, "flicking" her on the shoulders with his camera strap, bumping into her while shooting closeups on the street and sometimes reducing her daughter, Caroline Kennedy, to tears. Because of Galella, Jackie testified, she had "no peace, no peace of mind, was always under surveillance, imprisonment in my own house." She further suggested that the photographer's interest...
...former Tokyo model named Vera, and the father of a baby girl born in December, Ozawa is as hip as can be. At a recent recital by Cellist Mstislav Rostropovich, Ozawa, still sporting his familiar Beatle hairdo, wore a red turtleneck and carried a leather purse on a longish strap. Is Boston ready for this...
...Orchestra, in spite of their second billing, gave a one-hour demonstration of some of the yet untapped potential of rock. They were introduced to mild applause, and came on stage quietly. McLaughlin, a small man dressed in an Indian cotton shirt, baggy cords and tennis shoes, hefted the strap of his Gibson double-necked guitar over his sloping shoulders. With only a polite smile from McLaughlin, Jerry Goodman arched the bow of his violin high into the air and blasted out the opening run of "The Meeting of the Spirits." The band was as tight as the Dead...