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What with the chauffeuring of kids, shopping excursions, trips to tennis and golf clubs twenty or more minutes away and frequent journeys to summer houses in Wisconsin or Michigan, the gasoline bills are enormous. Mrs. Gibson averages $55 a month for her 1976 Chevrolet Chevelle sedan, which gets 16 miles to the gallon. Her husband spends double that for his 12 m.p.g. Mercedes, which he uses for commuting. John Schmeltzer, editor of the local Suburban Trib, believes that car-buying, if not car-driving, habits are slowly changing. Says he: "People have come down from the huge Cadillacs to Buicks...
...Department has urged Xerox, whose 6500 copier is the principal accomplice of the pushbutton counterfeiters, to find a way to make their machines less perfect as partners in crime. But the company is hesitant. "After all," says a spokesman, "you don't hold GM responsible just because a Chevrolet is used as the getaway car in a bank robbery...
...Hiring. The euphoria has not abated. Some Sikorsky workers, sure of their jobs for the next decade, have gone on spending sprees. Says Precision Grinder Elwood Worcester, 44: "I bought my wife a new car for Christmas, a $6,200 Chevrolet. We are going to Europe this summer; because now I can spend some of my savings and put it back later, I don't have to worry." For some junior executives, the UTTAS contract means instant advancement. Ken Rosen, 36, was propulsion manager for UTTAS; now he is engineering manager for the whole program. "UTTAS certainly advanced...
...size and weight of its cars. The public's approval of the lighter and crisply styled autos has delighted GM executives. Cadillac, which brought out its Mercedes-size Seville, experienced its best year ever in 1976. For the first time, Oldsmobile's intermediate-size Cutlass shoved aside Chevrolet and Ford to become the nation's bestselling single make (514,593 cars). Pontiac, which also concentrated on intermediate lines, scored an impressive 49.5% increase in sales...
...runway's end. For almost an hour, while the law shivered under blankets only yards away, the plane sat motionless; the only sound was the static of radio chatter emanating from people who watched from other vantage points near by. Then three rented vans, a Mercedes sedan, a Chevrolet station wagon and a Ford van pulled up to the plane, and the unloading of burlap bales of highly prized Colombian marijuana began. Two hours later, with half the plane's cargo removed, the police charged from the bushes, acting so quickly that they captured without a struggle...