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...Motors is spending $300 million to increase production, most of it for its compacts, Nova and Omega, and its sub-compact Vega. Ford has started a $250 million construction program to boost output of its Pintos, Comets and Mavericks. Chrysler is also expanding production facilities for its Valiant and Dart compacts. To fatten the relatively slender profits from smaller cars, manufacturers are loading the 1974 compacts with all kinds of optional items, such as luxurious vinyl and woodgrain interiors and air conditioners...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AUTOS: The New-Model Gamble | 10/15/1973 | See Source »

...computer card. The kid's name, street number and birth date, and the name of his sister, brother, dog, cat (or other pet) and friend. Let's say Tommy Snooks of 123 Hickory Stick Lane, with Sister Bunny, Brother Spiro, Dog Tuggles, Cat Snuggles, etc. Eventually, from Dart Industries, Inc., which, as the card says, "also brings you Tupperware, Rexall, Vanda Beauty Counselor and West Bend brand family products," comes a book...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: And Now Me-Books | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

...Dart Industries has tested this "totally new concept" with children in Southern California schools, offering a Me-Book along with half a dozen other children's books. They report that kids who never read before began reading Me-Books compulsively. Sleeping with Me-Books for comfort. Raising hell after leaving a Me-Book at the distant home of a friend. Their list of reader and parent responses concludes: "99% of the parents would like to buy more personalized Me-Books...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: And Now Me-Books | 10/8/1973 | See Source »

...largest developers have cleaned up their sales practices under pressure from federal and state regulators. Executives of Dart Industries, which has been charged with allegedly fraudulent sales of recreational lots in California, say that they will fire any salesman who tries to peddle their lots on a promise that the price will rise; the company is seeking customers who will actually build and live in their communities. Amrep Corp. promises to give a customer his money back if he visits his property within six months of signing a purchase agreement and decides that he does not like it. But investigators...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Special Section: The New American Land Rush | 10/1/1973 | See Source »

...Your cover of Bobby Riggs makes a perfect bull's-eye for my dart board...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Sep. 24, 1973 | 9/24/1973 | See Source »

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