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...that make it possible- has become a major growth industry. Automobile dealers sell armor-plated cars, mostly unobtrusive sedans, as fast as they arrive from the factory. Shops that specialize in converting existing cars into four-wheeled fortresses have a backlog of service orders (cost: $7,000 for a compact Fiat 127, $30,000 for a Rolls-Royce). Some 400 firms have assembled a private army of 20,000 security men and women who hire out as bodyguards to wealthy clients for $115 to $230 a day each. Even having a guard dog requires a major investment: a trained German...
...that really took place in a small Texas town some years ago, and it is engagingly rich in regional nostalgia and spiced with delicate bawdry. Not surprisingly, the co-author of the libretto is a storyteller of no mean skill, Larry L. King, an accomplished journalist who wrote a compact account of the actual facts underlying Whorehouse after they occurred. To tell it as it is in the show, a rural community, Gilbert, has long tolerated, secretly relished, and certainly patronized a venerable bordello run in a rectitudinous fashion that would be the envy of most private-school headmasters today...
...time of the sea-drift, rippling the dancers' bodies like wind on water. Meg Streeter's "Waves Blown Back" was less articulate, though still structured with thematic clarity. Streeter's dancers flashed across the stage in nimble zigzags, exploring the buoyant thrust of clean angles from a compact center...
Sales figures suggest that buyers are becoming more discriminating and value conscious. When General Motors in mid-March ran special sales contests, during which dealers pare prices, sales increased dramatically. While total new-car sales were down for the first six months of the 1978 model-year, sales of compact and subcompact cars increased by 13%. The star performer at General Motors last month was the boxy Chevette; its sales were up 84%, compared with a year ago. At Ford, Mustang sales rose 14%, while the new Fairmont is a stellar seller. Ford's lacocca puts himself...
...major sour note in the industry is Chrysler's deteriorating financial position. Sales of the compact Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon, the first small front-wheel-drive cars to be made in the U.S., are up to expectations. But these cars appear to be snatching some customers from Chrysler's own Volare and Aspen...