Word: lebaron
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...three-card monte dealer by spinning off the Mustang and Continental Mark series from existing chassis combinations. Now he is trying to do the same thing with virtually an entire line of cars. The $5,900 Dodge and Plymouth 1981-model K-cars begat the $8,100 1982 Chrysler LeBaron and Dodge 400, the $12,300 Chrysler LeBaron convertible (see box) and the 1983 Chrysler E Class and Dodge 600, which sell for $9,000 to $12,000. By stretching the K-car, he produced the luxury Chrysler New Yorker ($12,800). In the fall of '83 will come...
General Motors' most important new entries, the mid-size A-and F-body models, will roll into dealers' showrooms around the first of January. Chrysler is introducing new luxury LeBaron and Dodge 400 models, which are extensions of the K-car line, at the end of October...
DIED. Ervil LeBaron, 56, fanatical leader of the polygamous San Diego-based sect, the Church of the Lamb of God, who was believed responsible for the deaths of at least 13 people between 1972 and 1977; of as yet undetermined causes; in a state prison in Draper, Utah. LeBaron, who served twelve months in a Mexican jail in connection with the 1972 slaying of his brother Joel, was sentenced last year to life imprisonment for ordering the murder of the head of a rival polygamous sect in Utah. LeBaron was also convicted last year of plotting to kill another brother...
...what is most surprising is LeBaron's complete lack of introspection. He spends little, time questioning anyone's motivations--he never asks why students in their teens decide to give up their twenties for the grind of endless school and the care of dying patients. The psychology of his classmates is entirely absent. Conversations are included only to post straw men or to make points; they rarely give insight into the speakers. As far as LeBaron can tell, his classmates are there only because they are fourth generation HMS or the children of the faculty...
...best inside stories always show some balance. Unfortunately you can't often write a fair account and sell books too. The wholesale attack on the Establishment, then, is probably your best shot. But when this gets carried too far, as ha0pens here, all useful observations lose their force. LeBaron gets caught in too many superficial analyses and cliches and he rather than his school comes off as bloated...