Word: cars
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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There were other traces of panic. Newspapers were crammed with notices reading "Xe ban " (car for sale) and "Nha ban " (house for sale), and though both cars and houses were selling at one-sixth their value of just a month ago, there were still no takers. Women filled barrels with dirt and sand to be used as roadblocks. Thousands of troops strolled aimlessly through the city, as though whole divisions had been given leave at once. Paratroopers in jump boots and camouflaged fatigues were everywhere, cadging cigarettes from Americans: "You give me smoke, mister...
...They had stunt men standing by," explained former light heavyweight Boxing Champ Archie Moore, "but if the star was going to fight personally, then I was going to do the same." Moore, 61, probably regretted his decision during four hours atop a moving railroad car with stone-faced Actor Charles Branson. The fight scene, shot in a snowstorm in the Idaho Rockies, was filmed for Breakheart Pass, a western based on a novel by Adventure Author Alistair Maclean. At one point in the action, both men hung by their hands from the train roof and struggled to pull themselves back...
...Cannonball what? Unsponsored, illicit, and carrying no prize money, the Cannonball etc. car race does not exactly compete in the public imagination with the Indy 500 or Le Mans. Yet, among dedicated speed freaks, the nontelevised non-spectacular has become something of a legend in the five tenuous years of its existence...
...important part of the developers' strategy is to make it easy for shoppers to get to-and around-the twelve-acre project. There will be a 1,500-car parking garage for suburbanites and, for city dwellers, a direct underground link to the existing subway system. Once at Lafayette Place, shoppers will be able to move from store to store at three levels: in a subterranean concourse, on ground level and, by way of flying bridges, on the second floor. Instead of simply recreating the usual suburban shopping center-a fortress for retailing with all attention focused inward-there...
...Retail sales in March rose in all major categories except autos. Car sales, which have been skidding since the end of the rebate campaigns, dropped 29% below the year-ago level during the first ten days of April. Nonetheless, auto production is rising, and many furloughed workers have been recalled because of the industry's success in working down its inventory of unsold cars. Economists expect that the checks from the $8.1 billion tax rebate, which will begin to reach consumers within a few weeks, will put new strength into retail sales...