Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Sure, the guy pretends to put characters in. You've got your usual two, maybe four-five, hippy-type guys climbing into your old car and going off to a beach. To groove, you know, To screw around, scream we're free! to rocks and sand. You've got your passing array of loonies, the guys who carry around pomegranates and sleep with logs. The guy who counts all the punctuation marks ("the rivets") in Ecclesiastes. So you say "they got no depth," right? You say there's no plot, right? You didn't get the Civil War bits mixed...
...car window drifted effortlessly down like the neck of a transparent swan...
...approximation to it--in Israel," he said, and he tells a story he heard after the war to illustrate: "Many Arab notables from the occupied territory visited Jerusalem after the war. The Mayor of Jerusalem showed a visiting notable around the city, and when they returned to the car there was a ticket on it. The Arab asked about the paper on the front of the car, and the Mayor replied that he had probably parked wrong. The Arab asked if the person who gave the ticket knew that the car belonged to the Mayor, and the Mayor replied that...
Witnesses also criticized the automakers, particularly for pressuring their dealers to sell cars rather than provide service. Auto manufacturers, who were not asked to testify, argue that 95% of their dealers provide adequate service but admit that the other 5% can give the whole business a sour reputation. Car dealers insist that they average less than 1% profit on repair work. Other repair shops, said Robert Straub, president of the Independent Garage Owners of America, "are struggling to stay alive"but his testimony rang rather hollow after the reports of the steep markups...
What They Bought. The '69 model buyers tend to go to extremes in their choices. Luxury cars and economy compacts are both selling well, proving Detroit's contention that there are two ways for the market to grow. The fastest-rising car is Pontiac's Grand Prix, which has an electric rear-window defroster and the longest hood in the industry and retails for $3,777 without extras. Pontiac sold 24,874 of them in October and November, more than during all of the 1968 model year...