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...that different; it faces stiff competition from the Ford Fairmont, Chrysler's Dodge Aspen and General Motors' Chevy Nova. And Meyers' optimism reminds skeptical Detroiters of the company's early exuberance about the glassy Pacer, whose sales in 1975, the year of introduction, really did hit 100,000???and then almost stopped. Whether Concord can keep up its initial success will go far to determine if Meyers remains the head of an auto company, or becomes the chief of the first U.S. carmaker to get out of the business since Studebaker...
...than they had ever thought they would, and then go up to their eaves in debt. In some pleasant but by no means luxurious residential areas of the Northeast, Midwest and West, even $50,000 to $60,000 houses are almost nonexistent, while dwellings of $75,000 to $85,000???and up?are standard. The prices for new houses in June averaged $62,100 around Chicago, $67,700 in the Washington, D.C., area, and $72,100 around Los Angeles...
...Haley, strapped for cash, sold the paperback rights to Dell in 1967 for only $5,000???a deal that he would like to renegotiate...
...what he meant by "higher incomes," he loosely cited the mean or median level of income, and anything above that would be higher and anything below would be lower." Ford has repeatedly pounced on that to insist that Carter means to increase taxes on anyone making more than $14,000???even though Carter specifically had excluded "middle-income taxpayers" from such increases. Still, Carter is open to the suspicion that he did not know what the "median income" means...
Oldtimers like Mary Stuart of Search for Tomorrow earn $100,000 a year. The average actor takes home $35,000???about what many Broadway stars get. "I got to talking to Julie Harris a few years ago," says Michael M. Ryan, a veteran soap actor who is now John Randolph in Another World, "and that was what she earned that year. I was horrified." Now Ryan believes that the soaps subsidize Broadway: "If it weren't for them, there would be no actors left in New York." In Los Angeles, where General Hospital, Days of Our Lives and The Young...