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...sequence RN1234D." Germany's Porsche objects to having to prove the safety of its gas tanks in actual crash tests, "because with a production of only 50 cars a day, one car represents a tremendous value." Volkswagen fears that the famous beetle will be in for an untoward face lifting if its bumpers must be raised to a standard height to match the big cars from Detroit; the company wants to bolt on bumper guards instead...
...three weeks, Britons had barely suppressed yawns as the Conservatives and Laborites exchanged salvos of slogans. Searching for an issue, the Tories attacked Labor for not being eager enough to join the Common Market, for rising prices, for trade-union strong-arm methods, and for just about everything else untoward that has happened in the British Isles for the past 17 months. The Laborites shucked off the attacks, arguing that they had done their best, considering the mess that they had inherited after 13 years of "Tory drift and indecision...
...after his crossing in a Boeing 707, De Gaulle shook hands with President Raul Leoni and was whisked into downtown Caracas. Some 60,000 people packed the sidewalks, holding small French and Venezuelan flags as De Gaulle stood nodding and smiling, acknowledging the vivas. Taking no chances of an untoward incident, either by Venezuela's pro-Communist terrorists or the handful of vengeful French exiles in Latin America, the government posted 20,000 troops, police and security agents around the city; helicopters whirred FABRY overhead, and sentries dotted the rooftops along the illustrious visitor's route...
...shooting, and he finished up the year back at Sandringham where he spent his own and the Princess's birthdays. He found the intrusion of political affairs intensely annoying. "Another General Election will be a very serious matter," he wrote in 1886 to Lord Carrington, "and a most untoward event in the middle of the London Season...
Separate Planes. Getting there is nowhere half the fun. Many couples follow the prudent practice of flying under separate names - it looks better in case of an accident or some other untoward breach of security (though airlines have painfully learned never, never to drop an executive's wife a friendly follow-up note asking how she enjoyed her trip). Others avoid any possibility of embarrassment by taking separate planes. For expense-accountsmen it is, of course, cheaper to take the same plane. "It's almost becoming standard practice," explains a U.S. travel agent in Paris, "for American businessmen...