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With money tight and auto sales plunging, George Nouhan, a partner in a Chevrolet dealership in Hamtramck, Mich., began advertising that he would consider anything, anything at all, as a trade-in on a new car or truck. From around the country, inspired offers have been pouring into Hamtramck, a factory town encircled by the city of Detroit...
Without his trade-for-anything pitch, Nouhan figures that December's sales would have plunged even more than the 30% drop below normal. Recently he took a flyer of a different sort and allowed $4,000 for two leases on oil wells being drilled near Traverse City, Mich. A gusher, he points out, would ease a lot of the pain and frustration of trying to sell autos in the middle of Detroit in the middle of a recession...
...gold action. A Michigan girl, twelve-year-old Carlenne Brown of Bloomfield township, claims to be the first buyer of the yellow metal. At one second past midnight on Dec. 31, she signed an invoice for a quarter-ounce wafer, bought for $52.79 through a publicity-minded Southfield, Mich., coin dealer; he obtained the wafer from a fellow dealer in nearby Windsor, Canada, and had it delivered to his shop by car and helicopter...
...hastily called press conference, President Bok labels his wife "cute," but lays off the Germanic Languages Department in retaliation. "If you went to the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor, Mich., then you might have to worry about a job," Bok adds, "but here at Harvard you have nothing to worry about." In Washington, President Gerald Ford is laid...
Kathleen Ryan Evans Lansing, Mich...