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...gimmick? Partly. Westbound, distributed nationally by the New York-based blues-and-rock label Chess/Janus, plans to release the whole wacky affair, hypnosis and all, in late February. The session did produce some surprising results for the performers, who once recorded for Atlantic but who had their biggest hit with a disk that they put out at their own expense in 1970 (God, Love and Rock & Roll...
...subcompact, as GM did with its Vega and Ford with the Pinto, American Motors spent a remarkably low $5,000,000 and simply cut down the Hornet. As a result, the company produces the only subcompact with a six-cylinder engine (the others have four cylinders). Its latest gimmick is to offer optional denim upholstery by Levi Strauss. Together, the Hornet and Gremlin ring up two-thirds of American Motors' car sales...
LAST ACCOMPLISHMENT: In a promotional advertising gimmick for last summer's job, he once singlehandedly put away for breakfast seven cans of "Nine Lives-Super Supper" between 125th and 218th St. on the Broadway IRT No. 1 train...
...doing. The movement attracted him with its glitter and the limelight t assured him. What Marjoe does not acknowledge is the relation between his craving for attention and the cruelty of his mother, who dunked his head underwater or smothered him with a pillow to insure that her young "gimmick" memorized his allegedly God inspired sermons contentiously Rather, he insists that he resented his lather more although he actually hates neither patent because he suggests unconvincingly, he's doing his thing and they were doing theirs...
...gimmick was not lost on Chicago bargain hunters. The most enterprising among them were the four Johnson brothers: Linton, Wallace, Ron and Carl, who managed to be the first four in line. They planned their vigil carefully, arriving at the bank's door at closing time the day before the sale. Said Linton, the eldest at 24: "We had all we needed. We brought some sandwiches for dinner and breakfast and a record player with some of our sounds." The Johnsons made a party of it, dancing and singing through the night...