Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...MODEL OF THE YEAR PAGEANT (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). The girls are certainly pretty, but it's what's on their backs that counts, as 14 top U.S. designers show the new fall resort, city and formal fashions. Joan Fontaine and Jack Linkletter are the hosts...
...Philadelphia, in terms of population, 17 times as much as Chicago, 20 times as much as New York. Indeed, Robert Weaver, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development, once observed that New Haven (pop. 142,000) came closest to "our dream of a slumless city." Yet last week the model city was racked with the same virus of ghetto discontent that has plagued scores of other U.S. cities this summer...
Inventory Cushion. The Javelin is the first of the 1968-model cars scheduled for official unveiling between now and mid-September. The new year does not figure to be startling in its innovations. The Javelin's main rival as a conversation piece is likely to be Chevrolet's Corvette, which will feature a sleeker silhouette and a Ferrari-like snout. Mercury will introduce its new Montego, which will essentially be an elongated Comet. Dodge will add some curves to its slow-selling Charger. Such features as cover-up headlights will become even more familiar. And to comply with...
...automaker is the coming model-year more crucial than for American Motors, which has already lost $48 million in the first nine months of its current fiscal year. Despite all that red ink, the company insists that its long-range prospects are looking up. Under the imaginative leadership of Chairman and Chief Executive Roy Chapin Jr. and President Luneburg, A.M.C. has slashed $20 million in sales promotion off its annual budget, concentrated on improving assembly-line quality control, increasing plant efficiency, and attending to essential details such as the availability of replacement parts...
...cutting prices last February, the company got some extra sales push out of its slow-moving Rambler American economy line. It decided to scrap its ill-conceived Marlin fastback effective with the 1968 model-year, meanwhile cut back production on all '67 models to make sure that it would not be stuck with unsold cars. "Since January," says Luneburg, "we've operated at about halftime. I've never seen it before-and I never want to again...