Word: mg
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sakowitz also has an assortment of hand-made automobiles. An exact copy of a 1951 MG, called the "TD Replicar," with a Volkswagon chassis and a fiberglass body sells for $9250. The LaCrosse, which looks like something out of the Great Gatsby era, costs $65,000. And a Volante V-8 convertible from England goes...
Britons buy Howard Johnson, bury the MG...
Aside from overcrowding and poor public transport, the biggest problems confronting Athenians are noise and pollution. A government study concluded that Athens was the noisiest city in the world. Smog is close to killing levels: 180-300 mg of sulfur dioxide per cubic meter of air, or up to four times the level that the World Health Organization considers safe. Nearly half the pollution comes from cars. Despite high prices for vehicles and fuel (the government two weeks ago raised the price of gasoline to $2.95 per gal.), nearly 100,000 automobiles are sold in Greece each year...
...some extremely suggestive lines from Belushi ("Baby, you know when you bend over I see every bit of Christmas, and when you bend back I'm looking right into the new year."). On "Soul Man" Cropper delivers the same great riff he's been playing for years, and fellow MG Duck Dunn's bass line is downright thunderous. " 'B' Movie Box Car Blues" and "Flip, Flop & Fly" are fine, though not up to the standards set by the album's other tracks...
Thanks to many mao-tais, nobody lost face. The humorist had flown to Peking after driving from Paris to Hong Kong in his 1949 vintage MG. On arrival, a bout with bronchitis landed the peripatetic Perelman in a Peking hospital. When he saw the bill for his seven-day stay-$100-he treated his Chinese doctor to a pearl of wisdom: "Raise the rate...