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...Three, they are now making an effort to offer models suited to every pocketbook and taste. Volkswagen has expanded its line to include the medium-sized (for Europe) 1500 model. The luxurious Mercedes has acquired the pint-sized DKW, and English Ford has turned its Zephyr and Zodiac lines into luxury cars. In a curious alliance of two state-controlled companies, France's Renault and Italy's Alfa Romeo plan joint dealerships which will be able to offer the customer everything from a spartan $1,100 Renault R4 to a $20,000 custom-built Alfa sports coup...
Tokyo cameraman assigned to catch him at the beginning of the new Year of the Tiger (the sign of the Oriental zodiac under which Yoshida was born almost 84 years ago). Unpredictable as ever, Japan's most durable postwar statesman welcomed his tormentor graciously, even brushed aside a retainer's horrified protests to pose on an appropriate hunting trophy...
...Astrology divides the zodiac (the central band of the heavens that contains the paths of the sun, moon and planets) longitudinally into twelve successive parts, each named, like Capricorn, for the most notable constellation...
Joining with the Citizens' Council (no kin to the South's demagogic White Citizens' Councils), but picking up their own tabs, 146 Negro clergymen, business leaders and their wives spread through the city. Their destinations ranged from Woolworth's lunch counters to the swank Zodiac Room at Neiman-Marcus' specialty store. Nowhere were they refused service...
...admission of guilt, forces the Arthur Murray studios to abandon most of their now famous promotional schemes. These included telephone calls asking prospects to name two former U.S. presidents who were once generals, "Lucky Buck" contests soliciting dollar bills whose serial numbers included a five and a zero, and zodiac-and crossword-puzzle contests. All offered free dance lessons as a reward for the right answers, but the FTC charged that the contests were too easy to be genuine, were used as bait with which high-pressure Murray salesmen conned prospects into signing up for added courses...