Word: daytona
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Between now and the scheduled start of production in July, Chrysler will be pouring some $96 million into its assembly plant in Fenton, near St. Louis, in preparation for turning out G24s and other 1984 models. Two models of the G24, one bearing the Dodge Daytona nameplate and the other Chrysler's Laser, will go on sale in the fall...
...stroke in July 1980. Now 32, Richard, after months of therapy and workouts, is making a comeback. Last week a standing ovation greeted him as he ambled to the mound at tiny City Island Park in Florida to start his first game since the stroke. His team: the Daytona Beach Astros, a Houston Class A farm club. Richard had a rocky beginning, allowing the St. Petersburg Cardinals two earned runs and three hits in the first inning. Then he set tled down, retiring nine of the next eleven batters and throwing three shutout innings. "It took a lot of hard...
...U.S.A., Kim Seelbrede, was on display whirling the 1982 model, known as the Peppermint Hula Hoop, because it bears barber-pole stripes and is peppermint scented. In coming weeks the hoop will be featured in an episode of the television comedy-adventure The Dukes of Hazzard, and paraded in Daytona Beach, Fla., at an olympiad of hoop-based sporting events during the spring break for college students...
...ideal place to live in the U.S.? Most of the 5 million Americans who move to a new state each year might settle for San Francisco, say, or Santa Barbara, Calif, or Daytona Beach, Fla. Tucson, Ariz., and New Orleans have their adherents, as do Boston and New York City...
...Florida, Spruce Creek Homes air park is being built around an old World War II Navy landing strip eight miles from Daytona Beach. It will eventually have 2,000 units, including houses and condominiums, plus commercial hangars for apartment dwellers with no access to the taxiways. Many air parks try to maintain the airborne motif throughout the community. At Colorado's 40-home Erie Air Park, near Boulder, the local restaurant is in a converted Convair 990 jetliner, and the "parking lot" out front is actually a taxiway where customers can roll up in their small planes...