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What ever happened to Veronica Lake? Well, the tresses are a bit shorter, a little less blonde, and during rehearsals they're pulled back in a pony tail...
Time was when Detroit's carmakers simply pushed their new models into a factory garage and convoked the press. But this businesslike annual event has blossomed into a promotional orgy as lavishly tooled-and about as useful-as a tail fin. For four years running, Chrysler chartered Miami Beach's Americana Hotel for galas, at some $300,000 a throw. Ford once unwrapped not only its new line but a lissome young lady who pranced around in little but her chassis. Another time, Ford distributed Fairlane fenders as gifts. General Motors' Buick Division once tore...
Sometimes the electronic brain casts a long shadow. A man at the drivers' license bureau in Phoenix read about the checking system on his application and turned tail so fast that he ran right through the license bureau's plate-glass office door...
...formally took the Florida run away from Northeast. It ordered the financially ailing airline to stop all operations south of New York by Oct. 14, concentrate on its lagging service in New England. "It became apparent," CAB Chairman Alan S. Boyd told Senators, "that New England was the tail and Florida was the dog-and Northeast was interested...
...much of his energies went into extracurricular affairs. One of them, he told a startled dinner gathering on his U.S. trip last year, was membership in a club "which met once a year for dinner. The high point of the dinner was eating white mice picked up by the tail, dipped in honey, and dropped wiggling down the throat...