Word: aspens
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...million in 1975 and so would not have had the money to make extensive changes this year even if its officials had wanted to. They did not; back solidly in the black, thanks largely to the success of the intermediate Cordoba and the compacts-Plymouth Volare and Dodge Aspen-Chrysler is tinkering with the three only a little. Volare, for example, gets a "super six" engine that is 20% more fuel efficient than...
...miles, moving eastward from the Continental Divide, it descends some 2,000 ft. The walls of the canyon tower over what used to be a pleasant trout stream sparkling in the depths below. The canyon was not unspoiled, but neither was it ruined by money: the big, Aspen-style condominiums had been kept away, and most of the 1,400 dwellings along the river were rustic cabins whose owners often were retirees...
Ford's high flyers are its mid-sized Granada and Lincoln Mercury Monarch models. At Chrysler, which has rebounded smartly into the black this year after losing $260 million in 1975, the sales stars are the mid-sized Cordoba and the popular new Aspen and Volare compacts. All of the Big Three are also getting a substantial lift from surging sales of vans and pickup trucks, which are up 40% this year, mostly because of their popularity in what some auto executives describe as the "blue denim" market. Says Chrysler Executive Vice President Richard K. Brown: "They used...
...eclipsed by French Superstar Jean-Claude Killy; in the final race that year, Sabich split several vertebrae in a brutal fall at Aspen. The next season he suffered a knee injury that plagued him throughout 1975-when he failed to earn a cent on the pro circuit. This year he had earned only...
...among the resort's regulars. Not long ago, Sabich reportedly told a close friend that their relationship was at a crucial point. "It's either going to end," the friend quoted Spider as saying, "or we'll be married within a year." Rumors were flying in Aspen last week that the skier had been considering ordering her and her three children out of his house-and his life...