Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that their entire audience is below the age of consent. Thus the new season's most sophisticated entertainment may well be a British import drama rerun by NBC this Thursday, Male of the Species. First aired in the U.S. last January, the work is a dazzling, 90-minute model of urbanity...
...Peter Fonda cruise around the country on their choppers looking for the meaning of it all. If the self-pity becomes rather too heavy at times, Hopper (who also directed) has captured some telling bits of Americana on film and extracted a performance from Jack Nicholson that is a model of intuition and sensitivity...
...Annual model changes are not merely a tradition with U.S. automakers: for years they have been considered an important ingredient of the industry's sales success. Now, as Detroit begins to unveil its 1970 passenger cars, it is clear that this year's styling changes will be distinguished for their modesty. The proliferation of models in years past, the rising cost of retooling and added emphasis on safety have all contributed to the automakers' reluctance to tamper with last year's line...
...more than $100 million building a plant to assemble its entry in the small-car market. Code-named the XP877, the new car will be some 10 in. shorter than the Maverick. It will be powered by an aluminum four-cylinder engine. G.M. expects to begin selling the new model some time next summer...
...automakers are re-entering the small-car market at a difficult time. G.M. President Edward Cole predicted last week that new car sales in the 1970 model year would remain close to 1969's near-record level of some 9,700,000 units, but Detroit's share of that total has been dwindling. Sales of imported autos in the U.S. will exceed 1,000,000 units in the '69 model year, a 70% increase from 1966, and the trend is still running against domestic producers...