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...commercial carriers, but small trucks, vans and other vehicles that share some features with passenger cars. Many suburban housewives have fallen in love with minivans (estimated 1984 sales: 225,000), and thousands of yuppies are hooked on such off-the-road vehicles as the Chevrolet S-10 Blazer (sales so far this year: 130,727), the American Motors Jeep (79,807) and the Ford Bronco II (91,651). The fastest-moving truck of all is the small pickup. The nine different models of the compact carrier will have combined sales of 1.1 million this year, more than twice as many...
...tame, but it is also a trail blazer. In a new television commercial that went on the air last week in Dallas and Los Angeles, a series of black-and-white scenes depicts changes in women's lifestyles, from fashions to careers, during the past quarter-century. As the screen switches to color, a young professional woman is seen at work. A voice-over notes that for all the progress during those years, choices in female birth control had changed little "until Today." Introduced last year by VLI (third-quarter sales: $2.76 million), Today is the disposable contraceptive sponge...
Such behavior, of course, can be interpreted as part of the antimanners of an elaborate antistyle. Not everyone is wearing a blue blazer and short hair. At the crowded Astor Place Haircutters, a few dozen blocks from the orchid-scented salon of Monsieur Marc, the walls are decorated with a cellophane-taped montage of punk haircuts: the teeth cut, the rainbow cut, the fungi cut, the oh, s&$151;-- cut ("We call it that," says Owner Enrico Vezzo, "because that's what the customer says when he looks in the mirror...
...attempt to revive his campaign, Turner has dismissed his manager and hired Keith Davey, who engineered Trudeau's last two re-election victories. Shedding blazer, tie and but-toned-down image, the Prime Minister was photographed dancing with his wife to the rock sound of Doug and the Slugs at a Vancouver youth rally last week. But it was too soon to tell whether the new image would be enough to help Turner catch Mulroney. -By John Kohan...
...years ago this multimillion-dollar business came under the eye of the FBI, the U.S. Post Office and the Internal Revenue Service. Since then, in an investigation dubbed Dipscam, more than 20 diploma mills have been closed down and three operators have been sent to jail. Last week John Blazer pleaded guilty to mail fraud for sending out degrees from his bogus universities of East Georgia and the Bahama Islands; he received a two-year prison term. And in Arkansas last year, George C. Lyon, 79, was given a year in prison and fined $2,000 after selling FBI Agent...