Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DOUGLAS A. MAZZOTTA Detroit...
...only Elvin's opposition was hurting. Elbows slashing like scythes, he was collecting an average of 18 rebounds a game. Trading on his fadeaway jump shot, and a rim-rattling dunker, he recently turned in the top N.B.A. individual performance so far this season: 54 points against the Detroit Pistons. Last week, with a 147-point spree in four games, Elvin became the league's highest scorer...
...greatly. New York State reported 100 inquiries a day and 27,400 registration forms already distributed. New England asked for an extra 5,000. Dallas has passed out 30,000, but Los Angeles only 500. New Orleans picked up two tons of weapons, Nashville a pickup truck full, Chicago, Detroit and the state of Montana none...
Warranties are an old feature that began to get new emphasis in Detroit in the early 1960s. They are now under fire because, according to the commission, they quite often wrongly assure a buyer that "he takes delivery of a car substantially free of defects," and that defects that do appear "will be promptly and effectively corrected...
...Detroit's answer to the problem seems to be to reduce the warranty periods. The basic two-year, 24,000-mile warranty that applied to 1968 models has been cut to one year and 12,000 miles for the 1969s. That slash saves the industry, by FTC estimate, some $40 per car, or more than $300 million...