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...first time since 1965, it is rolling toward three straight annual records. Sales this year, including imports, will wind up at about 10,850,000 cars, some 600,000 ahead of last year's previous high. Yet at what by Detroit standards is, if anything, ripe old age the boom seems to be accelerating further, and the companies' main problem is producing enough cars to keep dealers well stocked. The same is true of trucks, which constitute a good gauge of the state of the economy. Manufacturers are selling all the trucks that they can produce; volume this...
...without wine is like a day without sunshine": Pillsbury Co., Nestlé and the R.T. French & Co. of mustard fame have recently become vineyard owners. So have Lazard Frères, the Wall Street investment-banking firm; John Hancock, the insurer; and Southdown Inc., the Houston-based conglomerate. Takeover-ripe wineries have become rare, and the bids for them are enormous. The Gallo brothers have spurned an offer from Seagrams of reportedly $150 to $200 million...
...RUSSELL has grown steadily more obsessed with madness and artistic alienation and more self-indulgent in his exploitation of the crude, the excessive and flam-boyant. To this point, his chief forte as a director has been his handling of theatrical effect. "Women in Love" was audacious and over-ripe in imagery, and over-fancy in cinematography--lavish in caricature and lacking in precise meaning. Lawrence's form had been tortured into the shape of Russell's own Gothic sex fancies. And it made as offensive, though visually awesome, film. With "The Music Lovers," a biography of Peter Tchak ovsky...
...York, Illinois, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Massachusetts divide their allocations from the Highway Trust Fund any way the people see fit. In Texas our need is for broad, fast, safe expressways. Dallas and Houston are capable of financing their own rapid transit needs when the time is ripe. RAY ZAUBER Dallas
This year, the story goes, Germany was ripe for recognition (Thomas Mann, in 1929, was the last German citizen to win). The other colorable candidate was Gunter Grass, author of the savage satire, The Tin Drum. Böll's triumph may well be due to a line in Alfred Nobel's will that recommends that the award go to writers of "idealistic tendency." Deep compassion for the ordinary man abounds in Böll's books...