Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sudden buyer switch to smaller cars. Of General Motors' new X car line, President Elliot Estes notes: "We guessed in favor of the six-cylinder engines. But right now sales are running 60 to 40 in favor of the fours." GM is getting no help from its big cars either. Sales of the standard Chevrolet are off 20% since January; Buick Le Sabres are limping almost 29% behind 1978's pace, and purchases of the Oldsmobile 98 are down...
Ford Motor Co. too is feeling the pinch, with sales of its big Thunderbirds down 41% for the year so far, and purchases of Mark Vs off 24%. But the plunge-of-the-year award so far goes to the Cougar, which had sold 18,775 by mid-June in 1978. For the same period this year, fewer than 3,000 Cougars have been bought-only 35 of them during the middle ten days of June. At Chrysler, sales of Dodge Aspens are down 30% for the year. The company's hottest autos are the subcompact Dodge Omni...
...Democratic Senators Dick Clark of Iowa and Thomas Mclntyre of New Hampshire, as well as Democratic Senatorial Candidate Donald Fraser of Minnesota. This spring the pro-lifers helped defeat pro-choice candidates for vacant congressional seats in California and Iowa. Well aware of the publicity value of beating a big name, the movement's members are gunning in 1980 for, among others, Republican Congressman John Anderson of Illinois and Democratic Senator Frank Church of Idaho...
...big mama of the antiabortion movement is the National Right to Life Committee, which sponsored last week's rally in Cincinnati. Organized six years ago, the N.R.L.C. claims more than 11 million members of 1,800 chapters across the country. The committee hopes to amass millions of dollars for next year's elections. It has been spurred into more forceful involvement in politics by competition from several activist groups that are at the front of the fight for a ban on abortions. Among them...
...hardships at home, most IIs come to Hong Kong for good. They arrive singly or in small groups, armed and prepared to fight. Many are smuggled into the colony by immigrants living there; the largest such operation is run by a 100-member triad, or gang, called the Big Circle. One of the gang's ploys is to send a group of its members picnicking near the border; there they pick up IIs and escort them back into the city. Others come by way of Portuguese-run Macao, where "snakeheads" smuggle them in by motorized junk, for prices ranging...