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...Cohen and Jerry Vreenfield, high school friends from Long Island, started Ben & Jerry's in Burlington four years ago. Now, at age 30, they tend strongly toward plumpness and prosperity. In place of the traditional seven-year-old boy who must be bribed with dasher-licking rights before he will turn the crank of the hand freezer, they use a reduction gear to make the paddles of the freezer in their wholesale plant turn slowly enough. At their ice-cream parlor, a rowdily redecorated former gas station, an elderly White Mountain Freezer Co. rock-salt-and-ice contraption chunks...
...Dasher Karen Blount took respectable thirds in both the 55 meter and 200 meter events, and with a win in the two mile relay to cap a perfect day, the trackster crew headed back to Cambridge to enjoy their first real two-day weekend in a very long time...
Buyers are also shunning the Scirocco and Dasher models, which cost up to $10,000. During the past two months, Datsun and Toyota sold fewer cars than a year ago, but Honda has sold more. Imports in November accounted for an estimated 24% of the U.S. market, as compared with nearly 30% earlier this year. The continued large number of imports led the House of Representatives last week to authorize the President to negotiate curbs on Japanese autos...
...presidency has frozen government into stasis. Paradoxically, Carter gained power largely because of fragmentation of power, a fact duly acknowledged by Press Secretary Jody Powell in David Broder's latest book. The system has worked: Carter has fulfilled the prophesy of 1976 campaign chronicler James Wooten, who noted in "Dasher" that...
...biggest draw is price. In West Germany, a Chevrolet Camaro and Ford Mustang cost about $10,400 each, compared with the sticker price of $9,700 for a VW Passat (which is called Dasher in the U.S.). The Chevy Caprice sells for about $14,000, or $1,000 less than the top-line Audi 100LS and $2,000 less than the BMW 525. Indeed, the dollar has declined so much that in some European countries, U.S. cars cost less than they did last year...