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...site of one of its strangest attractions, a garish attempt to capitalize on the successful cartoon series and paperback books by the same name. Thing is, it works. There is something awe-inspiring about seeing the heaviest living man sitting outside on a chair the size of a Mazda. How about a wax representation of a man with three eyes? Don't knock it til you've seen it, or the shrunken heads, either. While you're in the area, check out Fort Castillo a quizzical structure with eight-foot thick walls made out of coquina shells...

Author: By Bruce Schoenfeld, | Title: Living It Up in the Florida Sunshine | 3/20/1982 | See Source »

...report that Robert London was a Ford car salesman who drove a leased Mazda RX7. How inconsistent can a person be? I feel sorry for him, but can't he accept a little responsibility for the depressed U.S. auto situation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Mar. 1, 1982 | 3/1/1982 | See Source »

Robert London was a Ford car salesman with his share of the comforts of middle-class life in Southern California, He drove a leased Mazda RX 7, rented a pleasant apartment in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale and had a closetful of sports jackets and ties. A bachelor, London spent almost all of his income, which in better times reached $2,000 a month...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Many Do Not Get Counted | 2/8/1982 | See Source »

...hopping is only part of the problem of excessive employee turnover. U.S. firms are also quicker to fire workers in cyclical economic downturns than are their foreign counterparts. Compare the behavior of Chrysler and Mazda when they both faced economic extinction. Chrysler fired thousands of workers; Mazda went to great lengths to keep employees with the company. If firms fire workers when it is economically convenient, no one should be surprised when American workers abandon their firms when it is economically convenient...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Plague of Job Hoppers | 6/22/1981 | See Source »

...will be two feet shorter than a full-size Caddy, but will carry the same $10,000 price tag as an Eldorado coupe. In 1975, Chevrolet will also roll out a rotary-powered Vega with a claim that it has overcome many of the fuel-economy problems suffered by Mazda...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Battle of the Little Big Cars | 8/5/1974 | See Source »

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