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Jamming a chaw of Beech-Nut tobacco into his cheek, Larry Csonka jumped into a blue Chevrolet pickup truck and, with his older brother Joe at the wheel, bounced down a deeply rutted, brown dirt road to get a close look at 80 acres of Ohio potato and corn fields up for rent. "It's real good land," Joe said as they surveyed the rolling countryside in the fresh fall air. "It's got good drainage and you can see the good crop growing here." Larry nodded. "We can use the land," he said. "Let's take...
Squeaky went with Manson and another girl to Haight-Ashbury, where Manson seemed to be a hero, especially to young women. The first girl was dropped and another, Mary, was picked up in Berkeley. Then the three drove in a 1948 Chevrolet to the little town of Casper, where they found other disaffected flower children and settled in a house in the woods. There Charlie ordered her to "take off your clothes. " Later, after some hesitation on her part, they had sex for the first time...
Despite marriage, politics still dominated Jackson. Characteristically, he interrupted his honeymoon to attend a naval briefing at Pearl Harbor. But his wife brought new grace and style to his life, though he still wears undistinguished suits and black wingtip shoes, and drives a 1961 Chevrolet. The Jacksons own two houses, one in Washington's fashionable Spring Valley, the other a large house in Everett that was once the home of a banker who was the richest and most powerful man in town when Jackson was a boy-a bit of symbolism much appreciated by the Senator's friends...
...most part, however, Detroit doggedly continued its emphasis on size and power; over the past 20 years the standard Chevrolet has grown more than 2 ft. in length, gained more than 1,000 Ibs., and almost doubled its horsepower. One obvious reason for the companies' reluctance to change: except for the expense of materials, producing a high-priced standard-size car costs about the same as making a less profitable small...
...announced last week that it will spend $3 billion over the next four years to develop and produce smaller versions of its Buick, Pontiac and Chevrolet models. In April it will roll out a new Cadillac tailored for the age of rising gasoline costs: it will be 1,000 Ibs. lighter, 2 ft. shorter and almost 1 ft. narrower than today's four-door, 5,100-lb. Calais De-Ville. In addition, GM is planning to reduce its five distinct body styles to two or three. The company's eight engine varieties may be cut to four...