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...Ford Foundation. Who knew when Bundy might not let a grant to someone to do something that might affect me? I couldn't help thinking that his grants would be as well thought-out as his wars. So now I am pleading to my alma mater, Take Mac back...
...second year's coverage for $150. Both GM and Ford emulate that plan on their '73 cars, though neither offers protection that goes so far as AMC's. The AMC warranty won the praise of industry watchers as divergent as Presidential Consumer Adviser Virginia Knauer and Mac Gordon, outspoken editor of the dealer newsletter Motor News Analysis. Since AMC pays a much bigger part of new-car repair bills than before, the plan also helped solve the problem of dealer desertions, which at one point were running at a rate of several dozen per year...
...ATCO LP, Gumbo, is a personal nostalgia trip, a rollicking pastiche of voodoo, rumba, Dixieland and good old Mardi Gras stomp. If his high skill shows the inventive, assimilative style of a virtuoso studio musician, it is because Dr. John used to be just that under his real name, Mac Rebennack...
...Dynamo" is the other Ballard rave-up. The shouted vocal owes a bit to Steve Miller's pioneer work in the field of white blues singing. Argent's piano playing here is strictly honky tonk: in total concept, the song faintly echoes some of Fleetwood Mac's later efforts. Ballard takes his only solo on this tune, and shows himself to be an adequate guitarist, even if he does sound like a cautious Jimmy Page...
...Front. For a time at least, Mac-Gregor's job in fact will be something like superintendent of nuts and bolts. The committee he has inherited already numbers 230 workers, broken down into a polling operation, advertising, nationality committees, direct mail and a section concerned with political organization. MacGregor also will be less of a back-room operator than Mitchell. He intends to be the chief political spokesman for the President. "I am going to be somewhat more out front than John was," he says. "I plan to have frequent press conferences and speak out. The President agrees that...