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...supertanker Marpessa was steaming southward past the coast of Senegal to pick up a load of crude oil from the Persian Gulf, her crewmen were routinely spray cleaning her empty oil tanks with jets of sea water. For no apparent reason, an explosion ripped through the hull, sending the brand-new ship to the bottom. Two weeks later, an oil hold of the supertanker Mactra blew up in the Mozambique Channel; next day a blast blew apart the Kong Haakon VII off Liberia. Last summer there were two more tanker explosions. Scientists and oilmen were at a loss...
...manager of one large car dealership. Auto sales are off by anywhere from 30% to 50%, and more than a dozen dealerships have gone under in recent months. Where one agency had ordered 400 new cars by this time in 1969, it now orders 115. A newspaper campaign comes complete with $400 discount coupons for a new car. It brings a limp reply. A brand-new 1970 Barracuda, which would normally sell for $3,000, goes on special sale at a mere $1,495-and draws no takers. Housing is not much better off. Apartments stand vacant everywhere; in some...
...week, a tentative line-up for the 1973 race included two challengers from France, Australia and Britain, and one each from West Germany, Canada and Italy. And who will sail for the defense? The victorious Intrepid syndicate lost no time announcing that it will make its bid with a brand-new 12-meter to be sailed by Bill Picker...
Consistent Superiority. The changes that Chance made on Intrepid-shorter keel, rounder bow, fuller afterbody -have obviously made the white-hulled sloop swifter than ever. What is astonishing is that she may actually be a faster boat than Stephens' brand-new Valiant. Her first two races around the triangular 24.3-mile course set the pattern for the trials. With Picker at the helm, Intrepid handily defeated the trial horse Weatherly by 3 min. 55 sec., and then trounced Heritage by the embarrassing margin...
...Gimmicks. Determined to gain a larger share of the muscle-car market, Chrysler entered its brand-new Dodge Challenger in the Trans-Am for the first time this year, along with a redesigned Plymouth Barracuda. American Motors convinced Mark Donohue and Roger Penske, Trans-Am champions for the past two years in Chevrolet Camaros, to switch to its Javelins in a deal that will earn the pair a reported $3,000,000 over the next three years. General Motors countered by appointing Jim Hall, designer and driver of the innovative Chaparrals to head its Camaro team, while Veteran Driver Jerry...