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...doubted that Detroit could respond quickly to public clamor for low-cost transportation, but the Chevette was rushed into production in just 18 months. It will go on sale next month, with the initial marketing effort in cities that have been strongholds for Datsun (now the No. 1 selling import) and Volkswagen. GM's main target city: Los Angeles, where 49% of all new cars sold in August were built overseas. During the next twelve months, GM hopes to sell about 275,000 Chevettes, enough to help reduce imports' share of the U.S. market 5% to around...
...real dirt-what the French call le hard core-has come from the U.S. One American import, History of the Blue Movie (seductively retitled Anthologie du Plaisir), recently played at 14 theaters in Paris. French distributors are now fighting for the rights to such American porn "classics" as Deep Throat and Behind the Green Door...
...period of 39 months, with the major impact coming after the November 1976 elections-was voted down in July. Many Democrats have deep ideological objections to price rises that fatten oil-company profits. At the same time, the Democrats have no agreed strategy for forcing energy conservation and curtailing imports. Alternative ideas -rationing, import quotas, stiff taxes on energy usage-cannot survive even a congressional vote, let alone a veto...
Nonetheless, it is not difficult to find fault with the demands of today's Third World. For one thing, in the proposed New International Economic Order, it is not only the First World that will pay. Higher oil import costs alone have already increased the less developed countries' burden by a staggering $10 billion a year, almost as much as the total grant aid received by these countries in 1973. For the time being, these higher costs can be balanced by large-scale assistance from the OPEC states. But that too will change. World Bank economists estimate that...
Behind these statistics is a change of greater psychological meaning-as great in its import, perhaps, as some of the first experiences of work that coded man's behavior. A pre-industrial world-whether one hunts animals or tends flocks, cuts wood or digs coal, cultivates the soil or fishes the seas-is primarily a game against nature. One's experience of this world is conditioned by the vicissitudes of the seasons, the character of the weather, the exhaustion of the soils. The forces to be overcome are tangible, if capricious. An industrial world is a game against...