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...enduring. From the dawn of the auto age, the sleek stargazing ragtops have symbolized youth, fun and sun. Generations of couples romanced at drive-ins in their back seats, while film starlets and Presidents were photographed proudly sitting behind their steering wheels. But convertibles never accounted for a large slice of Detroit's market; and they finally were killed by air conditioning, increasing vandalism and high-speed driving on interstate freeways. One by one, the big automakers stopped building them. The last U.S.-made convertible, a special Bicentennial Cadillac Eldorado, rolled off the assembly line...
Welcome to our quaint town. Hope you like the construction, which, you might want to know, will continue until (gasp) 1984. But while some are here for four years, you are here for a few days. So you may want to sample a slice of Cambridge life. Or a slice of pizza...
...best, and, to quote one former French ambassador, a combination "messenger boy, travel agent and innkeeper." Reduced responsibility has also meant falling prestige. No French diplomat reacted kindly when President Georges Pompidou imperiously commented that an ambassador's role consisted of balancing "a cup of tea and a slice of cake." Nonetheless, after each election in the U.S., hope still springs eternal among political beneficiaries that they might be rewarded with choice ambassadorial appointments...
From then on he raced only the clock, touching the wall at 4:01.48 to slice .55 seconds off the old Harvard standard set by Ron Raikula. Lundberg has now qualified for three individual events at the Nationals...
...suggested, got a bad case of the frizzies but not the answer to the big question: Why did Bantam Books shell out a record $3.2 million for the paperback rights? That may not be much by Hollywood standards, but in publishing, it is long, long bread any way you slice it. It is enough to give a dollar bill to every man, woman and child in New Zealand, with change left over to pay a major league utility infielder for a year. Put it another way. If you placed $3.2 million end to end, they would stretch 318 miles...