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...found. The mother and grandmother, who had on daytime clothes, were apparently attacked before retiring. The killer carried out the five bodies at night, lugging them over the 13 cement slabs that form a stepping-stone walk to the driveway, and presumably throwing them into the family's Chevrolet Malibu wagon, which has still not been found. The drive to the North Carolina grave site must have taken five hours...
...EARLY MORNING hours of December 31, 1969, a blue 1966 Chevrolet with Ohio plates pulled up beside Joseph A. (Jock) Yablonski's Clarksville, Pennsylvania, home. Three men got out and entered the house. The three went silently to the third floor bedrooms where they shot and killed Yablonski, his wife Margaret, and his daughter Charlotte as they slept. The bodies lay there until January 5, when they were discovered by Yablonski's son Kenneth...
...inanity wasn't restricted to the announcing. Chevrolet paid ABC $69,000 for a one-minute commercial showing Chevy's six small cars out in the snow on the side of a mountain, while a chorus rhymed Chevrolet with U. S. of A. over and over, and the main plug came from a dude in front of a standup piano amongst the cars, in the snow, in the middle of nowhere...
Comedians ask: "How can a man who works in an Oval Office paint himself into so many corners?" They tell audiences about "the Jerry Ford doll"-wind it up and it lurches into something. The jokes are even spreading abroad. On an Israeli TV show, "President Chevrolet" greets some Israelis at the White House by saying how pleased he is to "welcome this distinguished group of Egyptians to the Kremlin." Other jokes making the rounds...
Turned Corner. Though the sales figures represented only the second consecutive good ten-day reporting period, they signaled to auto executives that Detroit was rebounding along with the U.S. economy. "Our business turned the corner with the introduction of the 1976 models," declared Ford President Lee lacocca. Chevrolet General Manager Robert Lund noted that early October truck sales were also significantly higher: 34% above the 1974 figure. "Trucks are always a weather vane for business," he said. "People buy them to make money with them...