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Graced with the same snub-nosed design that has characterized the basic bug since 1948, the new 1200 is as much a throwback as an evolution. It has the same chrome trim and many, though not all, of the improvements built into the current 1300 and 1500 models, such as wide-track wheels and automatic choke. But the new car resurrects the pony 41-h.p. engine which VW dropped in 1965. It will hit 70 m.p.h., as against 78 m.p.h. for the 53-h.p. 1500, will cost a bare $1,121, compared with...
...Bishops adopted a compromise, plague-on-both-sides statement of principles that blistered Pike for his "offensive" and "irresponsible" utterances - meaning his skepticism about such doctrines as the Virgin Birth and the Trinity. At the same time, the house deplored the notion of a heresy trial as a "throwback to cen turies when the law sought to repress and penalize unacceptable opinions...
...Ludwig Erhard was firmly maintaining that if Charles de Gaulle insisted on pulling his troops out of the unified NATO command, he could hardly keep 72,000 of them on German soil, no matter how much he wanted to keep a watch on the Rhine. "There can be no throwback to an occupation status," Erhard declared. Then, as De Gaulle's July 1 deadline for France's NATO withdrawal began to creep nearer, Erhard allowed technical experts in Paris to negotiate a "temporary" agreement under which the French troops might stay in Germany for the time being. Last...
Chancellor Ludwig Erhard refuses to be bullied. "There can be no throwback to occupation status," he declared in Berlin last week. "Nor will we abandon our position that French troops [in West Germany] must have a definite task within defense planning." A tripartite group of British, West German and U.S. diplomats last week produced a paper that said much the same thing; it will serve as Bonn's bargaining position in next month's talks with the French. Erhard hopes that the 27,000 French troops in Germany will remain on station, linked unilaterally with the West Germans...
...challenging the "look-say" method that took over the field beginning 40 years ago. Look-say, best known through the "Dick and Jane" readers, counts on sight identification of whole words, using pictures as clues, and brings in phonetics only gradually. The new method, without being a throwback to McGuffey, is centered on phonetics, freely uses picture clues and-most significantly-puts to work on a broad scale the theory of programmed learning...