Word: dusters
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...what they were 16 months ago. But small-car prices jumped about 25%, while those of full-size models went up only an average of 15% during that period. For example, the cost of Ford's latest subcompact Pinto has climbed 27%, to $2,919; Plymouth's Duster is up 29%, to $3,243. By contrast, full-size Dodge Monacos have increased 18%, to $4,605, and Ford...
Chrysler produces two compacts, the Plymouth Duster and Dodge Dart. Says Townsend: "We have been reducing the number of models we make and increasing the commonality of parts." Chrysler once used up to 60 different window regulators in its cars; now the number is down to five. According to Chrysler President John Riccardo, "The new program means longer production runs for each model and fewer parts to stock in plants and dealerships...
...bank robbery that opens the film is staged and executed with vigorous economy; no flash, just straight, brutal action. There is also a spectacular and funny showdown at the end between a hired killer (Joe Don Baker) driving a car and Charley behind the controls of a crop duster. As the car and the plane bump, sideswipe and crash into one another, the scene becomes almost a parody of the recent excesses of the chase that were encouraged by The French Connection...
...selling in this country are made in the U.S., up from only four out of ten in 1969. Demand is so heavy that some would-be buyers have to wait. Dealers report that GM Vegas, American Motors Gremlins and Ford Pintos are in uncomfortably short supply. Chrysler's Duster, a somewhat larger compact, is also moving fast...
From his grandfather and older brother, Prine had learned to play a $28.95 mail-order guitar. Later he moved up to a $217 model purchased with money he earned working as a pew duster in an Episcopal church on Saturday nights. At 14 he began writing songs modeled after Hank Williams' why-don't-you-listen-while-I-tell-you-this-tale-of-woe style. At 24 he walked into one of the coffeehouses in Chicago's Old Town district and sang in public for the first time. "People were very responsive," he recalls. "If they hadn...