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Back in 1972, Motel Operator Angelo Asciolla of Lake Winnisquam, N.H., paid $5,200 for a new Olds Delta 88. After driving it all of 1,390 miles, he discovered that the car would move neither forward nor backward. As he later learned, the GM dealer had left the auto in water up to the floor boards before palming...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Sweetening a Lemon | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...When Asciolla took the car back to his dealer and asked for a replacement, he was offered a new transmission. After he made several futile appeals to consumer groups the New Hampshire supreme court came to his aid, ruling the car a lemon. Last week, Asciolla finally received, free of charge, a new Olds Delta 88, list-priced at $7,863.40, and a $6,200 check from GM. He also had the old '72 Delta parked behind his motel-a lemon that had, after all, yielded some juice...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: Sweetening a Lemon | 6/5/1978 | See Source »

...Paul J. Asciolla, 40, a member of the Italian-founded Scalabrini Fathers, was assigned to a quiet post in a Chicago suburban old people's home in 1965 as a reprimand for his public involvement in civil rights. As an Italian-American concerned with the problems of ethnic groups in the U.S., Asciolla has become one of Chicago's-and America's -leading spokesmen for immigrant Americans. A colorful, somewhat garrulous priest from Rhode Island, he crisscrosses the U.S. as a lecturer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: 200 Faces for the Future | 7/15/1974 | See Source »

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