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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cars. As GM Chairman Thomas Aquinas Murphy told TIME Detroit Bureau Chief Barrett Seaman, "It's one thing to talk about reinventing the automobile to get one that will go 50 miles on a gallon. It is another thing to talk about fleet averages. That means you have got to have some cars that get a lot more than 50 miles a gallon if you are going to have the bigger alternative models people in the past have found they needed to pull a trailer or car ry a full-size family." The only way to sat isfy both...
...done," or "It can be accomplished on a limited basis, but not for mass production." Today the automen are more cooperative, but they have difficulty getting a fair hearing from the public or Congress, both of which often discount their arguments in advance. Admits Estes: "We've got a serious problem with our credibility." Thus the regulators have felt free to override industry objections to bloated costs and the unnecessary risk of rushing into unproven technologies that...
...plan is supported by Amtrak's president, Alan Boyd. He argued last week to a Senate Commerce Subcommittee that the average age of locomotives and cars is 28 years, the average system-wide speed is 45 m.p.h., and that maintenance costs are "out of sight. We've got a lot of junk." Added Boyd: "A smaller system will enable the railroad to provide much better service...
...always, the ultimate victims are the nation's consumers, and last week they got more predictably glum news about inflation. Even though OPEC's price increases are only just starting to work themselves into the economy, wholesale prices leaped a full 1% in February and, just as it has for months, food led the advance...
...got a redheaded knockout for an aide. A good ole Southern boy for an adviser. He's one funny, wild and crazy guy." So read CBS's ad for Mister Dugan in TV Guide, and lots of viewers were probably looking forward to seeing any, wild and crazy guy last Sunday night, not to mention the redheaded knockout. But a not very funny thing happened on the way to the tube: just three days before the show was supposed to go on the air, Norman Lear's T.A.T. Communications Co. suddenly yanked it away, leaving CBS, which...