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...COMMON knowledge that the Volstead Act, several depressions, and the invention of four-wheel brakes have become part of history since a Harvard-Yale game settled a major championship or demonstrated the best in football. Almost unendingly one hears that these late November meetings are self-sufficient entities--complete whole football seasons synthesized into three hour, red and blue capsules, to be swallowed only in the Yale Bowl or Harvard Stadium. What more can be said? The 75,000 spectators, the sounds and colors, the brandy and Chanelscented air--all the riotous and mellow components of the Weekend are, above...
...last week's show in Tokyo, new cars were displayed on rotating platforms, while miniskirted models recited memorized sales spiels. Spectators gawked, for example, at a four-wheel-drive Toyota outfitted for bird watching that had a roof-mounted camera and sound equipment to record birdcalls...
...while none of the group that troops out--forgetting, for laughter, to rub its collective strained neck--will go home and discuss the finer points of drama, few will escape without the four-year-old gleam in the eye that comes from one last swoop on the ferris wheel...
...down 6%, compared with the same period a year earlier. But during the summer, the rate of decline began to slow markedly, and consumption in the third quarter ran only 1% lower than 1980 levels. Even before summer began, U.S. motorists were logging about 3% more miles behind the wheel than...
...matter that the notion was as old as ancient Greece, as recent as the 1910 Boy Scouts Official Handbook; Americans make a specialty of reinventing the wheel every decade or so. The philosophy seized folks overnight, and the sport of mass running had begun. Suburbanites jogged