Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wafted on the early-autumn Corning air were painfully autobiographical. Marilyn Bereson of public TV's Consumer Survival Kit had so much trouble with her car that she declared publicly at another consumer conference that she would never again buy a General Motors product. A GM executive from Detroit called soon after to solve her problem. And there is the case of Esther Peterson, the nation's highest-ranking consumer-affairs official. An unfunny thing happened to her on the way to the Action Line Conference. She showed up at the Commuter Airlines counter at Washington National Airport...
...style. The Knicks are good on paper, and will be good if the paper is legal tender and given to Monroe and Jim McMillian. The Celtics will reach .500 only if opposing teams refuse to play while Dave Cowens is out. With Kevin Porter traded to Detroit for Eric Money, the Nets need a play maker who can bounce the ball as well as they bounce checks...
...trained as a painter, Smith later concentrated on sculpture. Smith the sculptor, however, never quite lost his painter's orientation. His pieces, as a result, most always retain a reference to a frame and therefore the works do not always function as truly three-dimensional pieces. Such is his "Detroit Queen", an enchanting bronze creature whom Smith composed from auto parts...
...says Richard G. Macadam, design vice president for Chrysler, echoing a lament made by many U.S. automen. The 1979 models that are now popping up in showrooms are geared as much to beating a legal deadline as they are to cruising smoothly down an Interstate. Congress has said Detroit must increase the average fuel-efficiency of its cars in steps to 27.5 m.p.g. by 1985, and for the model-year that is just beginning the requirement inches up to 19 m.p.g...
Downsizing, begun in the '76 model-year by GM with its Cadillac Seville and Chevrolet Chevette, has spread to most of Detroit's bigger '79 cars. Chrysler has introduced a New Yorker that looks much like the large cars of old; yet it is 800 lbs. lighter and 9 in. shorter than last year's version. GM shortened its Cadillac Eldorado by 20 in. and slashed 1,150 lbs. from its body, thus slaying, presumably for good, the last of GM's giants. The few remaining 1978 Eldorados are selling briskly to speculators who hope...