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Public betting pools and slot machines are common throughout Germany as well, but the real romance is still in the wheel of fortune. Explains Carl-Alexander von der Groeben, promotion manager at Bad Neuenahr: "Somehow we are still surrounded by the ancient aura of being socially exclusive, and just a little bit illicit. You can see it in the face of the grocer's wife, who comes in and looks around to see if anyone there knows...
Japanese cars range from three-wheel $650 midget cars and the $1,020 beetle-shaped Carol 360, made by Toyo Kogyo, to Nissan's squat, six-passenger, $3,750 Cedric, named after a character in the novel Little Lord Fauntleroy. The bestseller: Nissan's $1,566 Bluebird, named for "the bluebird of happiness" m the Maurice Maeterlinck play. Though these cars are rugged, functional and economical, they cannot compete in styling and roominess with most U.S. and European makes, which will be nearer to the Japanese prices when the tariffs are reduced...
...both Foyt and Gurney faced the choice of making repeated pit stops for tire changes-or risking blowouts and accidents. For Foyt, there was no choice at all. "Racing comes before my wife and family," he said, and a friend added: "A. J. would run with one wheel on top of the wall if he had to-to beat Jimmy Clark." Scotland's Clark, naturally, was unaffected by the fuss. There he was, smack-dab in the middle of the front row-with Firestones...
...conflict churns, at times quite literally, around an old English water mill with its paddle wheel shlupping and sloshing through Joanne Woodward's living room. Though the mill looks slickly renovated, the plot remains distressed antique: a woman whose husband is away is trapped by an escaped madman. Joanne is the sort of girl who prances around home modeling bathing suits or floppy hats, but her mood changes when the wheel starts scooping up gentlemen, living and dead...
...just about as hopelessly primitive as that. The dialogue offers a redoubtable challenge to actors required to speak it with straight faces. They get scant help from Director George Englund, who apparently felt stymied by a shocker in which the only new gimmick is the discovery of the wheel...