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Chrysler for the second time this year is bumper to bumper with bankruptcy. Last June the company teetered for two weeks before its 400 lenders agreed to ease financing terms so that it could obtain $1.5 billion in federally guaranteed loans. Now Chrysler is asking for $400 million in new Government-backed loans. Without them, the company may not be able to survive the month of January...
...scientists and backyard tinkerers to try tapping alternative forms of energy, ranging from sun power to geyser power. Not waiting for these exotic energies to arrive, Brazil is making an all-out effort to exploit a quite ordinary, but until now underused, power source: alcohol distilled mainly from its bumper crops of sugar cane. Already, 230,000 of the automobiles moving along Brazil's roads are powered by pure alcohol instead of gasoline. By 1982, Brazil hopes to have produced at least 1 million alcomobiles. Except for a few minor engine alterations, the cars look and run like standard...
...times, for example, there are very few signs of a world in the chips. Yet, on a given street on a given day, Rolls-Royces idle bumper to splendid bumper; the air is soaked in Bal a Versailles; diamonds go like Tic Tacs. From now to Christmas The New Yorker will be heaving with ads for crystal yaks and other lavish doodads in "limited editions," for which one assumes there must be buyers. Saks Fifth Avenue, which advertises itself as all the things we are, has recently decided that we are a 14-karat gold charge plate ($750). Of course...
...Notre Dame. For good measure, Georgia has replaced Alabama as the top-ranked team in both the Associated Press sportswriters' poll and the United Press International coaches' poll, the first time since World War II that the Bulldogs have led the national rankings. Jubilant Georgians are unfurling bumper stickers that marvel: HOW 'BOUT THEM DAWGS...
...Detroit 1980 was the year the U.S. auto industry launched a do-or-die campaign against imports. Commercials have pitted new, small, front-wheel-drive cars against foreign competitors in bumper-to-bumper comparisons, as automen tried to fight their way out of an 18-month sales slump. Last week, however, they lost a major battle in their campaign. After 19 weeks of inquiry, including 44 hours of public hearings, the U.S. International Trade Commission ruled 3 to 2 against an argument by Ford and the United Auto Workers' union that the tide of overseas autos, particularly Japanese models...