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...lacocca is perpetually outspoken, fashionably dressed in European worsteds and as obviously at ease in a barroom throbbing with used-Ford salesmen as in a hearing room full of Senators. If humans can be said to have automotive analogues, lacocca suggests nothing so much as a Ford Mustang, that stylish-yet-democratic car whose creation is perhaps lacocca's greatest triumph...
...retrieving hundreds of pieces of cover art, some of which had drifted to TIME offices round the world. Promotion Director Robert Sweeney arranged the complicated details of the bequest with the gallery. The gift was accepted by S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institution. "These portraits are as stylish and as spirited as the people they depict," said Ripley, "and we are delighted to have them...
...City in 1976: "In Italy now you want to feel rich and look poor." Sales of Rolls-Royces have fallen off to nearly half their level of a year ago. The miles of nightclub neon that used to light up the Roman nights have dimmed to a mere two stylish spots, Jackie-O's on week nights and The First on weekends. "Rich people now only entertain at home, and they don't want us," complains Photographer Umberto Pizzi. Says Designer Principessa Helietta Caracciolo: "Actually, the rich are in hiding...
Take the nickelodeon, for instance. It is a stylish device, as are all the devices of this production, but besides relieving the tedium of set changes, what does it do here? Why impose a device from a cliched art form of the early 20th century on a chosen 19th century setting of a 16th century play...
...Among others, he recruited Fritz Kolbe, an employee of the Nazi foreign office who delivered plans for the V-2 rocket missiles and minutes of the meetings of Hitler's inner council. When Allen became head of the CIA in 1953, he applied the same stylish ingenuity and ruthlessness he had learned in the OSS. One of his greatest successes was the Berlin Tunnel in 1954. At a cost of $4 million, the CIA burrowed into East Berlin to tap all calls, from Communist Berlin, including those to Moscow...