Word: chevrolets
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...directly from the company. This week's specials, Dodge Dart Swingers and Plymouth Dusters, qualify for $200 rebates. In addition, the company is offering a $100 bounty to customers who trade in certain cars made by its competitors. This week, for example, a motorist trading in a used Chevrolet Vega or Ford Pinto for a new Swinger would get a $300 check from Chrysler, regardless of what kind of markdown he was able to get from the dealer on the car's basic sticker price of $3,518. In this case, the rebate would in effect...
With money tight and auto sales plunging, George Nouhan, a partner in a Chevrolet dealership in Hamtramck, Mich., began advertising that he would consider anything, anything at all, as a trade-in on a new car or truck. From around the country, inspired offers have been pouring into Hamtramck, a factory town encircled by the city of Detroit...
...ranks as the foremost harpsichordist of the day. In addition to his appearances with the Philharmonic and the Chicago Symphony this season, he will give 40 or so recitals across the U.S., arriving for each concert with his 10-ft.-long Rutkowski and Robinette harpsichord neatly bundled inside a Chevrolet Sportvan. Between 1964 and 1971, Kipnis made 14 superlative discs for Epic and Columbia-notably a choice LP of short works, The Harmonious Blacksmith, that remains the best single recorded introduction to the instrument and its music. This week Angel, for whom Kipnis has recorded since 1972, releases...
...Christmas-morning quiet on Pennsylvania Avenue was sundered by a clatter of metal. Out on the White House lawn was an unexpected and most unwelcome package: a 1975 Chevrolet had crashed through a wrought-iron gate at the northwest corner of the grounds and screeched to a halt a few feet from the mansion's north portico...
...surviving children and a nephew in something very close to style. An image drawn from these times captures a rural American dream: "O, it was a beautiful tree, right to the northwest side of my car shed, two-car shed; had that '26 Ford and that '28 Chevrolet stationed close to that plum tree." Such prosperity was Shaw's undoing. Local whites "didn't like to see a nigger with too much." The sharecroppers' union told blacks that they could some day run their own affairs, and Shaw joined. But a white landowner coveted what...