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...door Falcon is ideal; a dark green Chevy II with automatic transmission is "safe" for the pastor of a small congregation. But a substantial urban congregation may expect its minister to drive something a bit larger and less austere, such as a blue Mercury Comet or a Pontiac Tempest...
...felt was "making an elephant out of a mosquito." At week's end the Cologne prosecutor had still not filed an indictment, and everyone was hoping that the Shah would decide to settle for Neven Dumont's personal apology and thus bring a quiet end to the tempest in an inkpot...
...week's end, the thousands of tempest-tossed citizens could only hope against hope that this was the end of it all, that new-brewing storms in the Pacific would spend themselves before reaching the West Coast...
...most important, what is gained by saying one painting is "the best"? Asger Jorn, Denmark's painter of livid, vivid abstraction, caused a bit of a tempest this year by refusing to accept a proffered Guggenheim award. "I get my money by selling paintings," he said, "and I think it is more healthy than by getting prizes. If you establish that one artist is better than another one, it is a question of convention-and you have to have a common measure, whereas the whole value of art is exactly that common measure doesn't exist...
...autos in the last quarter, General Motors lifted its already commanding share of the market half a point to 54.5%. G.M. rose chiefly on the sales of its big, restyled Buicks, Pontiacs and Oldsmobiles. Also aiding G.M.'s rise were its new intermediates, the Pontiac Tempest and the Oldsmobile F-85, which were last year's compacts but have been made larger and more luxurious for 1964. Chevrolet's handsome new intermediate, the Chevelle, has quickly carved out its niche in the market, but it seems to have done so at the expense of its smaller brothers...