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...least through June. To be sure, they are shipping some cars with only four tires each (no spare for the unlucky driver who gets a flat). But some motorists have been able to get spares from auto dealers who carry stockpiles of tires, and the automakers promise that every buyer will get a fifth tire eventually...
Lots of Loans. The FTC'S ruling does not apply to contracts already in effect. Nor does it cover credit-card purchases (consumers are already protected under the Fair Credit Billing Act) or loans that the buyer himself arranges from a third party (an auto loan, say, from a bank). Rather, the regulation is aimed at credit deals set up by the seller -even if the seller only steers the consumer to a certain finance company. That adds up to a lot of business, says the FTC-$122 billion last year alone...
Engaged. William L. Calley, 32, former U.S. Army lieutenant whose 1971 conviction for murdering 22 Vietnamese civilians was overturned, then reinstated by the federal courts; and Martha Penelope Vick, 29, buyer for her father's jewelry store in Columbus, Ga., whom Galley met five years ago; in Columbus, where Galley is now on parole, working for a construction company...
...40th District in Pittsburgh, where the collars are whiter and the houses larger, Charles Kolling Jr., 25, an assistant buyer for the Thrift Drug chain, is having a ball. Says he: "I've always wanted to get involved, and after '72 I was looking for a candidate I could trust, someone who would really turn us on. And I found...
Small imports, which range in price from $2,700 to $3,400, are also feeling the chill of buyer indifference. They now account for no more than 14% of U.S. sales v. almost 18% last year. Among foreign makes, Volkswagen, long the leader in import sales to the American market, has fallen to third, behind Toyota and Datsun...