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FAST-MOVING VOLKSWAGEN, which accounted for more than $75 million of the $175 million foreign-car sales in U.S. last year, now faces Government roadblock. In antitrust suit, Justice Department charged that major U.S. distributor, Volkswagen of America, fixed wholesale and retail prices, eliminated competition among its own 14 distributors and 350 dealers by giving them exclusive sales territories, forced dealers to sell only to buyers living in their sales areas...
...picture, a Colette story in which a teenaged boy is seduced by an older woman, was screened by a censorship board in Chicago more than two years ago and denied a permit because, the board claimed, the film was obscene. Lawyers for the U.S. distributor. Times Film Corp., set out to prove that 1) the picture is not obscene, and 2) the city's censorship ordinance is unconstitutional. They did not get far on either count. Chicago Police Commissioner Timothy J. O'Connor upheld his citizens' board, explained to a master in chancery that The Game...
...LIQUOR SALES, in which a wholesaler forces dealer to take less popular brands before he can get scarce, top-quality liquors, are illegal, U.S. Supreme Court ruled. Case was brought against Magnolia Liquor Co., the sole Seagram's distributor in New Orleans, which required dealers to take Seagram's Ancient Bottle and 7 Crown brands in order to get scarce Scotch and Seagram...
Explained the story beneath: "Dropped axle, 4-inch-long shackles, reversed spring eyes and a leaf removed from the spring group account for snooping attitude of front end. Spic-and-span engine room houses a semi-torrid flathead with lightened flywheel, two-pot manifold, headers and special distributor . . . The lakes pipes are up front."* Thus the editors of Hot Rod magazine instructed do-it-yourself fans in the delicate art of transforming a 1940 Ford coupe into an authentic, snoop-fronted, 130-m.p.h. "iron...
With the eat-'em-ups and the slash-'em-ups proving by good grosses that there is plenty of room at the bottom (said one flabbergasted distributor: "I don't get it; I can't even stand to look at the stills"), the next step in low, lowbrow cinema was a marriage of the undead with the underdone: I Was a Teenage Werewolf (Herman Cohen; American-International). Plot synopsis: a mad psychiatrist turns a sensitive adolescent into a hairy, ravening beast. Says 30-year-old Producer Cohen: "I heard that 62% of the movie audience...