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During 1983, manufacturers hope to make up for lost sales. Ford plans to unveil its first compact front-wheel-drive cars, the Ford Tempo and Mercury Topaz, along with a new softly rounded, highly aerodynamic Thunderbird. General Motors is readying two sports cars of its own for the market: a revamped Chevrolet Corvette, and a small new two-seater from Pontiac...
...most important new autos on the boards are efficient-looking compacts to replace the Fairmont and Mercury Zephyr. Cars in the new line, code-named Topaz, have a four-cylinder engine, front-wheel drive and a sloping hood. They are designed to compete head-on with the Chrysler K-cars, the Dodge Aries and Plymouth Reliant, and the General Motors X-body models: the Chevrolet Citation, Pontiac Phoenix, Oldsmobile Omega and Buick Skylark...
...presented a plan for four black-bag jobs, OPALS I through IV. They were clandestine entries at which microphone surveillances could be placed, as well as TOPAZ: photographs taken of any documents available, including those under lock. One entry would be held in reserve for any target of opportunity Mitchell wished to designate...
...office, Cauthen was winning the first race with a stretch drive on My Dad's Cross. In the second race, he brought a five-year-old mare called Donizetta up from seventh to third. After that, he won the third with Joanne's Fling and the fourth with Sparkling Topaz. Since December, Master Cauthen, who weighs 92 Ibs., has been winning roughly 30% of his mounts. That is not supposed to happen in horse racing, where a 15% winning average is extraordinary. As far as anyone remembers, nothing like it has happened at a major track before...
Frenzy. After a stretch of bombs (Marnie, Topaz, Torn Curtain, it hurts to even list them) Hitchcock came up with this solid, funny, return to the theme which has obsessed him since the beginning of his 53 film career. Blackmail (1929) the first British talkie, dealt with the problem of an innocent man suspected of a murder he, of course, did not commit. Frenzy too, has a nabbed innocent--only by 1973 the crimes shown had grown more lurid and gruesome: rape and strangling (with neckties). Hitchcock seems to be leaning more and more to overt comedy in his second...