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Astro Couch. The foreign cars have obviously gotten the message of Ford's Mustang: a sports car is now a family car. Germany's Bavarian Motor Works showed a hot little $2,500 sedan, designed especially for the U.S. market.* Britain's Jaguar introduced its XKE 2 + 2, nine inches longer than the two-passenger model, which it otherwise resembles. It has a minimal back seat that can accommodate two people in a pinch, costs $6,070. Aston-Martin went even further with a four-passenger DB 6 that has a full back seat and sells...
While much of his conversation with Ho was "off the record," Greene said, he had gotten the impression that North Vietnam would negotiate on one condition--that the U.S. "demonstrate an intent to get out of Vietnam...
...bullish about his prospects is Rod D. Grimm, 25, a Berkeley graduate student in marketing who has al ready served two years in Viet Nam with the Green Berets. Grimm, who receives his master of business administration degree this summer, has been interviewed by 15 companies. He has gotten eight "seconds"-invitations to inspect company facilities and talk seriously about work and salary-and expects several more before he is finally forced to make a choice...
...reason for all the talk is that the nature, quality and targets of American humor are undergoing considerable change. Bob Hope and Columnist Russell Baker both believe that the change is for the better, and Carol Burnett proclaims: "Humor has gotten braver; we're doing nuttier, wilder things." S. J. Perelman, on the other hand, says unequivocally: "I have never seen so much ghastly work, even in television, as this year." And as far as Playwright (Cactus Flower} Abe Burrows is concerned, "there is nothing to kid any more. This is the age of consensus...
...handiwork as "a highly responsible budget," but criticism, like the budget itself, seems to keep on growing. Says Joseph D. Ardleigh, executive vice president of the Research Institute of America: "The budget counts on savings that won't be made and receipts that won't be gotten...