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Within the last few years, an architectural revolution has been transforming Skelm and Runcorn. In Skelm, Sir Hugh Wilson designed a compact, low-rise city resembling a collection of garden apartments. The city will culminate in a two-tier center, according to Wilson's plan. A resident can walk almost any place in town in ten minutes. But a two center specialist took this general conception and went wild. He thought up a town center--with shops, community halls, and recreational facilities--that has a roof hung on girders, like a suspension bridge. Since the walls do not hold...
American Motors Corp., which had been the lone holdout in announcing its 1968 increases, led off the week's price play. The company declared an average 3.8%, or $89, boost in its compact Americans (now $1,923 for the two-door model) and medium-sized Rebels ($2,420 for the four-door sedan). Tagging its new Javelin sporty car at $2,459, A.M.C. also boosted the luxury Ambassador line by some $120, to $2,671, including now-standard air conditioning. With that, the company loosed another breezy salvo in its new ad campaign: "Either we're charging...
There seemed to be no good reason for the Ford Motor Co. Ltd. of Britain even to consider a new car. For those who preferred the compact and medium-sized auto, it was already producing Anglias, Consuls and Prefects; for bigger-car buyers, it was manufacturing Zephyrs and Zodiacs. The market appeared to be covered. Then, Ford planners spotted a potentially lucrative gap. To fill it, they created the Cortina, a car in the Anglia price range but with roominess comparable to the Consul...
...changes this year are far from radical; most manufacturers have opted to streamline existing models-adding a little chrome here, taking a little there. The sporty flair initiated by the Ford Mustang in 1964 is everywhere in evidence. Most of the emphasis is on the "intermediate"-more than a compact, but less than a full-size car. Says Ford Division General Manager Matt McLaughlin: "The real battleground for sales in 1968 is going to be in the intermediate field." Lincoln-Mercury is betting on its Montego line, of which two models resemble the popular Cougar. General Motors is also pushing...
...against the Russians in the Second World War. With the Palestinian Liberation Army effectively cut off from Egyptian reen-forcements, the Israelis were able to capture Gaza City before the morning of the 6th. About three quarters of the PLA is composed of Palestinian refugees who live in incredibly compact refugee camps around Gaza City. With a little work by the Egyptians, many of the 215,000 refuges could have been resettled, but Nasser has left them on the Israeli border as a potential weapon in any all-out attack on Israel. Although I was refused access to the camps...