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Automakers face another problem that is increasingly common in U.S. industry: domestic cars contain a variety of parts produced abroad. Ford officials announced that the price of its '72 Pinto, Capri and Pantera models will be hiked to reflect the surtax on such imported parts as engines and transmissions. But on domestically produced cars, the big three rolled back scheduled increases averaging about 5% on their entire '72 line. The lower prices will hit hardest at financially troubled Chrysler (1970 losses: $7,600,000). Generally, Ford and G.M. officials are hoping to make up for the freeze with rapidly increasing...
...decade; today the Cougar outsells Pontiac's Firebird. The elegant Continental Mark III, brought out in 1968, has picked up 19% of the luxury-car market, which was once the all but exclusive preserve of Cadillac. The most rapidly rising model is the $2,400 German-built Capri, a sports compact that Lincoln-Mercury began importing last year. Estimated 1971 sales: 50,000 cars...
Thirty-six of the 44 entries last week completed the trip from M.I.T. to Caltech in Pasadena. The winner: a 1971 Ford Capri burning unleaded gasoline and outfitted with an air-injection afterburner, an exhaust-gas recirculating system, and four catalytic mufflers to clean up exhaust partially before releasing...
...that the island was outside Government jurisdiction. The reefs, he pointed out, were beyond the three-mile limit of U.S. territorial waters. Ray claimed that international law allows anyone who discovers an oceanic island and colonizes it to proclaim it a sovereign country. Dubbing his new nation the "Grand Capri Republic," he made plans to "occupy and defend the area against all comers...
Fritz's hobby seems to have been small boys. He transformed a Capri grotto into a scented Sodom, where attendants wore the habit of Franciscan friars and skyrockets were fired to celebrate orgasms. Photographs were taken and circulated. Eventually, reports of the goings on were published in the press. Kaiser Wilhelm rushed to the support of Fritz. But the scandal was too much, and Fritz committed suicide...