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...Ealing Corp., a learning-systems and optics company in Cambridge, Mass., President Paul D. Grindle thinks nothing of going to work wearing shimmering green slacks with a red silk shirt, welcomes similar flamboyance in his employees. "The mini-er the better," he says. "People seem snappier, jazzier and zippier when dressed in mod styles...
Ford also has a zippier (300 h.p. or more), completely restyled, four-seater Thunderbird aimed more at the family than the sports-car market. But the car Ford worked hardest on is the Lincoln, frankly aimed at knocking Cadillac from leadership of the luxury market. Longest car on the road (229 in.), the Lincoln looks like a popular version of the Continental, which now becomes the top-priced Lincoln series, has horsepower boosted to 375 h.p., and new weight distribution that makes it handle like a sports car. Says Stylist Walker: "If that Lincoln doesn't beat Caddy...
Pretty, Oscar-winning Cinemactress Anne (The Razor's Edge) Baxter is noted, she complains, only for her skill in playing straight dramatic roles. Last week she ably played straight man for her pressagent in a campaign for a zippier reputation. She is glad, she told newsmen in a Hollywood press conference, that in her new picture, My Wife's Best Friend, she has the role of an Egyptian belly dancer and wears a topaz in her navel. "I've been presented as terribly nice, a good actress, wife and mother," said she. "This is wonderful...