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Harvard's Chicano population will celebrate Cinco De Mayo, a Mexican holiday analogous to the Fourth of July, this weekend with a three-day symposium commencing this evening and finishing with a fiesta Saturday night...
...markets, U.S. inflation goes up a notch. Prices of imported goods rise, and so do those of the U.S.-made products that compete with foreign merchandise. Example: the prices of Japanese-made Hondas and Toyotas. German-made Volkswagens, even models produced abroad by U.S. makers (like Ford's Fiesta and Dodge's Colt) all have risen since October. Administration officials now say that the dollar's decline will add one-half to three-quarters of a point to the inflation rate this year...
...there is no transmission tunnel running back through the passenger cabin to cramp leg room. GM offers front-wheel drive on some Cadillac and large Oldsmobile Toronado models and is preparing a small front-wheel-drive car for the 1979 model year. Ford is importing the front-wheel-drive Fiesta from Europe, where it has proved highly successful with cost-conscious buyers...
...Like actors and baseball players, racing enthusiasts are regarded as somewhat declasse. But the Harvard-dominated Medenica team defies all the stereotypes, both in racing style and in personnel. They compete in Formula Ford road racing, on Grand Prix-style courses with single-seat cars equipped with 1600cc. Ford Fiesta motors. While Formula Ford cars can't match the flat-out power of Indy types they still average 90 to 100 mph on twisting, graded courses...
...trim little Chevette (base price: $3,225, v. $3,499 for a Rabbit), was introduced in 1975, but Chrysler now plans to follow with the country's first front-wheel-drive subcompacts, the Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon. Ford, too, will offer a front-wheel-drive subcompact, the Fiesta, though the car will be built by Ford subsidiaries in Europe and shipped to the U.S. American Motors' entry in the subcompact field will be the Concord, a shorter, lighter version of the Hornet, which is being shelved...