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Huber and cohort Lauren Norton started a team two years ago at Concord Academy when women's ice hockey drew little more than snickers and snide remarks. But the impact of Title IX has changed all that--nobody guffawed when the fresh women tandem discussed their plans with Athletic Department officials. Indeed, prior to this year's initiative, plans for the new hockey rink (if and when it is built), included a women's ice hockey locker room...
...Guys here have been pretty cool about us so far," says Huber, who recalls whistles and cat-calls at Concord. "Hey, I curse on the ice, I get into it," adds the free spirited Tania, who admits to flashing the finger at the hecklers...
Easier said than done: AMC has less capital than its competitors with which to develop new models and reduce the size of its cars in order to meet future stringent fuel-economy standards. But it did scrape up the money to bring out a new '78 model, the Concord. It is a luxury compact that, with options, sells for as much as $5,200?roughly comparable to the price of the fast-selling subcompacts, Honda's Accord and Volkswagen's Rabbit. Meyers believes AMC must now focus its sales push on the Concord to the maximum. He told TIME Correspondent...
...Concord sales, unlike those of AMC's other models like the Gremlin and Matador, have in fact started fast. But unfortunately for the company, Concord is not all that different; it faces stiff competition from the Ford Fairmont, Chrysler's Dodge Aspen and General Motors' Chevy Nova. And Meyers' optimism reminds skeptical Detroiters of the company's early exuberance about the glassy Pacer, whose sales in 1975, the year of introduction, really did hit 100,000?and then almost stopped. Whether Concord can keep up its initial success will go far to determine if Meyers remains the head...
...adapted General Eisenhower's Crusade in Europe for a TV series. He was the author of Benjamin Franklin: The Shaping of Genius, and William Diamond's Drum, The Beginning of the War of the American Revolution-a widely praised account of the Battle of Lexington and Concord-and other popular histories...