Word: carly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Record Year. General Motors officials said that 1977 could be a record year, with car sales hitting 11.25 million, slightly ahead of this year. Bank loans have shown an upturn, indicating renewed business demand. Though reports on Christmas sales are conflicting, merchants at least hope they will wind up with a gain. Says James Lutz, executive vice president of Chicago-based Montgomery Ward: "The weather is with us, and we're going to have the best Christmas ever...
...Norman Siegel, a stocky, 40-year-old English teacher from Bridgeport, Conn., drowsiness had been a curse since high school days. He could fall asleep and indeed often did, at almost any time−in front of his class, at the wheel of his car and even while giving driver-training instruction. For years, despite spending thousands of dollars looking for a cure and being twitted by his friends about his intermittent stupors, he was unable to do anything about his affliction...
...sales experiments so far, air bags have indeed proved unpopular. General Motors offered air bags as an option on some models in 1974 at $225 per car and at slightly higher prices for the next two model years. GM thought it might sell 300,000 air-bag autos per year, but total sales were only...
...Panacea. Actually, while they may indeed save some lives, air bags are no panacea for auto safety. They are most effective in frontal crashes taking place at less than 30 m.p.h., such as occur when a car hits a tree or light pole-but most head-on collisions between two cars are much more violent. Air bags are not effective in side swipes, back-end collisions, or multiple jolts (they deflate in a fraction of a second after the initial impact...
Each night the commercial net works give you exactly what you would get on your car radio, except for the pictures and the visual presence of the anchorman. Much, therefore, turns on these two factors. CBS, which consistently leads in the ratings, has also long led in the excellence of its news-gathering staff. This strength began with Edward R. Murrow (Charles Collingwood and Eric Sevareid remain from that era), continued with a middle generation of Roger Mudd and Dan Rather, and has now resulted in a set of people as good as Bob Schieffer, Ed Bradley, Richard Threlkeld...