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...model will be called the Citation, and it will replace the current Chevy Nova. Three other divisions will use the same names that they now have on their compacts: Pontiac Phoenix, Oldsmobile Omega and Buick Skylark. The cars will be classified as 1980 models, giving them a five-month sales lead over the later-starting competitors that will come out when the model year formally begins in the autumn. Between April and September, GM aims for sales of 325,000 X cars. Company executives talk of selling 1 million of the cars by the end of 1980. (By comparison...
...increasing chances for an outright oil shortage. He warned of the looming squeeze in some of the scariest terms yet used by any Administration official. He told a Senate committee that the six-week-old Iranian oil shutoff could turn out to be "prospectively more serious" than the five-month Arab oil embargo of 1973-74 because it could last much longer...
That is what investigators from the Better Government Association and a team of Chicago Sun-Times reporters headed by Pamela Zekman and Pamela Warrick discovered after a five-month undercover probe of six of the city's 13 legal abortion clinics. Two of the clinics performed admirably, the investigators say, but four others, which together do one out of every three abortions in the Chicago area, are assembly-line outfits concerned only with making money...
...musical directorships of orchestras because of his intense dislike for the attendant administrative and social duties. In America, he has been known primarily for his 23 years as a guest conductor with the Chicago Symphony. Los Angeles won him by offering freedom from paper work, a lighter-than-usual five-month load, and a blank check. A tall, slim, aristocratic man, Giulini is the rare maestro who is truly loved by his musicians. They may grumble about his perfectionism or his occasionally erratic tempi. But, says Victor Aitay, Chicago's co-concertmaster, "he approaches music as a religion, like...
...such carrier is J. Ventura Garcia, 43, of Las Cruces, N. Mex., an assistant professor of speech at New Mexico State University. During a five-month period in 1975 he and his German shepherd, Harmony, were denied admission to three restaurants in the Southwest. Blind friends had mentioned similar incidents, Garcia says, "but in most cases, they simply accepted the embarrassment." After one particularly galling experience at Luby's cafeteria in El Paso, however, Garcia filed suit charging humiliation and denial of civil liberties...