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...million in new revenues by hiking certain "user" taxes-including an additional 2?-per-gallon levy on commercial aviation gasoline and a new 2% tax on air freight. But above all, the President is counting on increased spending, both private and governmental, to keep the economy in high gear and thus generate increases in taxable personal income and corporate profits...
Last week Iacocca got his reward. Piling his personal gear into a bright red Mustang, he sped the half-mile from his office to corporate headquarters in Dearborn, where he moved into the vacant office of group vice president, Iacocca, an executive noted for his hard salesmanship, will not only be in charge of all Ford cars and trucks -accounting for 80% of the company's sales-but of Ford of Canada and Lincoln-Mercury...
...little bit o' plastic" record that the Beatles sent their fans free for Christmas. Meanwhile, back in London's Odeon Theater, the furry foursome made their first onstage scene since Ringo had his tonsils clipped. Surprise again. This time the mops were all covered up with Eskimo gear. But everybody knew who they were the minute they cranked up to shoot down Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer...
...grandiose consumer toys, an array of pseudoscientific gear, and stylish spas or hideouts are only sofascinating. By the end, no one really gives a damn whether the whole town of Fort Knox is gassed to death or whether Goldfinger does finally break the bank. Will the scene be more spectacular than the gilded ladies, golden Rolls-Royces, and pernicious laser rays which preceded it? Since the answer is no, the movie ends with an anti-climatic thud (or, rather, rustle; Bond and girl assume their usual, final positions beneath a parachute...
...other aircraft that Johnson had taken on their maiden flights were the Air Force's F-102 and F-106. In both planes, something went wrong with the landing gear. Said Johnson, in dry tribute to the fact that the F-Ill's landing gear had worked perfectly: "The principal object of the first flight of any airplane is to make a successful first landing...