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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first time since 1935, Ford has overtaken Chevrolet in the light-truck market. But the margin is slim, and each manufacturer predicts sales of 700,000 trucks this year. Ford tops its line with the sporty Ranchero, while Chevrolet counters with the El Camino. A long list of options includes air conditioning, power steering, automatic transmission, wooden steering wheels, bucket seats and high-performance engines. The price of a dolled-up pickup can approach $5,000, and the cost of the piggyback camping unit that slides into the truck bed can add another...
Retailers can continue to advertise credit in general wording ("Ask About Our E-Z Payments Plan"), but if an ad men tions even one specific term it must go on to list all others. That could embarrass ghetto storekeepers, many of whom lure the poor into expensive installment contracts by trumpeting "No Money Down - Years...
...trade talks last December, the Japanese were so uncooperative that the negotiations almost broke down. Out of dozens of items on the list for discussion, the Japanese agreed to liberalize imports of only chewing gum and pet food. In April, Japan eased restrictions on seven other items, but most were products as insignificant as boiled pig entrails. A veteran U.S. businessman in Japan explained with annoyance: "They said one day, 'Now you can make radios.' But when you read the fine print, it turned out that you couldn't bring in parts. You couldn't even...
...Senate Permanent Investigations Subcommittee, chaired by Sen. John L. McClellan (D-Ark.), subpoenaed information on student militants from various colleges. In the course of its hearings on SDS, the McClellan Committee proudly revealed a list of leading figures in SDS, most of whom had already been well-publicized by the media of their respective areas. The McClellan Committee has since moved on to an investigation of the Black Panthers and other black militants...
ALMOST the first thing I did on entering Harvard four years ago was to shell out a few of my parents' hard-earned dollars and join Students for a Democratic Society, then a relatively recent addition to Dean Watson's mailing list. I was soon taken in hand by a mostachioed radical several years my elder, with whom I spent a curious, concentrated week canvassing the freshman dormitories for political talent. We weren't too successful, if the truth be known, finding most of my classmates had their minds on P.T. credits and Gen Ed Ahf and the girl next...