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...lounge, and a dining room seating 200. Using nuclear fuel, the goliath of the skies could cruise endlessly around the world, picking up and disembarking passengers with an 18-place shuttle plane that would have its own hangar amidships. An all-cargo version of the dirigible could fly 150 compact cars across the Atlantic in 40 hours at a cost of about $140 per vehicle...
...There are 10,350 restaurants and 1,100 hotels in Paris alone, not to mention 110 nightclubs and 12,000 bars. Whether or not they could cover all the pertinent sights, smells and tastes, none of today's guides could consider printing them all. Air travelers need compact books...
Last week, Manhattan's Kornblee Gallery put on display the first Hybrids, their neon tubing aglow as they rotated on turntables like new cars on display. The full-scale models sell for $1,100; compact, desk-sized versions cost $150. Blueprints are available to those who want to build one themselves. There are no plans to come out with a 1966 model...
...list price; they can and generally do charge less. What the buyer really needs to know is the wholesale price-the price that the dealer pays the manufacturer. Dealers and manufacturers are not required to reveal wholesale prices, and they don't. A rule of thumb is that compact cars are marked up 21%, regular cars 25%, and luxury models 27% to 29%. Therefore, the wholesale price can roughly be figured backward from the list price. Example...
First on the market is Sony, whose compact, low-cost ($1,345) Videocorder, available since September, has already sold more than 1,000 units. In June, Ampex will introduce its $1,675 home video tape recorder. Fairchild Camera & Instrument Corp. and RCA are working on models that they hope will eventually retail for around...