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...better times, Detroit's new smaller cars might have been runaway successes. Surveys conducted by both Ford and Chrysler show that 80% of new-model buyers are happy with their purchases.. "I love my Ford Escort," says Judy Siotto, a San Francisco medical assistant. "It has lots of room and great pickup on the hills." Adds William Consavage of West Yarmouth, Mass.: "My Plymouth K-car gets good mileage, and I like its looks...
Ford's new front-wheel-drive subcompacts, the Ford Escort and the Mercury Lynx, are selling better. Ford has orders for 180,000 of them, and is expected to meet projected 1981 sales of 345,000. But Ford's larger cars, such as the Granada and the Mercury Cougar, continue to gather dust on show room floors. The company has already shut down plants in Atlanta and Chicago to reduce inventories of the slow-selling cars...
Volkswagen's Rabbit faces tough com petition from new American subcompacts like the Ford Escort, and sales of the U.S.-made Rabbit dropped 26% in November...
Each year during the weekend before exams, the board shows a pornographic film to relieve the tension of study pressures, Mandell said. "We let off steam here," one student attending "Debbie Does Dallas" said, as his female escort added that "most of the women here do not condone the violence of the sex--we are just curious...
...over the North Atlantic, a giant Soviet TU-95 Bear reconnaissance plane last September zoomed across the invisible line that marks the U.S. defense zone off Iceland. In five minutes, two American F-4 Phantom II interceptors zoomed up from Iceland's Keflavik Airport to draw alongside and escort the trespasser out of the forbidden Air Defense Identification Zone (ADIZ). Last week the U.S. Air Force released a remarkable set of pictures of the interception, photographs so sharp that the faces and gestures of the Soviet crewmen were visible as the American Phantoms hung close...