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This Detroit joke points up the hottest -or coolest-long-term trend in the auto industry. Though an air-conditioning unit is the most expensive accessory available (average price: $350), it is getting to be one of the most popular. Eleven percent of all Detroit's 1962 model cars had factory-installed air conditioning (some 750,000 units), and about 250,000 more were installed by dealers...
...Coolest car of all is the Lincoln Continental, with 80.2% of its 19635 equipped with air conditioning (compared with 72.7% in 1962). Next comes Cadillac, with 67% v. 59% of its 1962s. But the rolled-up window is not only for these yachts of the road; Chrysler's Dodge Division reported last week that it has already installed more air-conditioning systems this year than...
...lithe body of a girl in a metallic leotard (Matt Turney), rousing loiterers into dances that were alternately elegant, calculating or frenzied. Sometimes serious, Lightning was also full of the ironic wit with which Graham occasionally likes to prick the dance world's pretensions. The girl's coolest, most contained movements, for instance, often prompted her partners to shatter the mood with explosive, calisthenic displays...
...Mussolini household throughout the Fascist era, and on occasion Papa Mussolini would grudgingly admit that some of the disks had merit in a decadent way. But the Duce did not live to see the day when Romano, now 33, has won acclaim as one of Italy's coolest jazz pianists. Describing his music as a "cross between California and Eastern hard bop," Romano specializes in "Italian blues," plays entirely by ear, is also a self-taught harmonica and guitar player. Last week he was fronting a combo of five pieces that was packing them in on the Italian nightclub...
Prime Minister Lumumba, encouraged and accompanied by Foreign Minister Bomboko, who emerged last week as the coolest and most courageous member of the Congolese government, went to the Leopold II Barracks to negotiate with the army mutineers. A compromise was effected: President Joseph Kasavubu would become commander in chief of the Force Publique in place of General Janssens; the garrison would get native officers; and the army would be run by a general staff, part Belgian and part Congolese...