Word: modelling
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When the '69 models were introduced in October, the industry had its best one-month record in history, selling 886,000. In November another 786,000 new cars were sold. That was predictably fewer than in the previous month of model introductions, the usual early impulse buying and fleet orders; still the total was 27% higher than in November 1967. This month the automakers are scheduling about 8% more production than in last December. Ford Vice President Matt McLaughlin sums up the expansive mood: "It looks like the question will not be whether we'll break...
What They Bought. The '69 model buyers tend to go to extremes in their choices. Luxury cars and economy compacts are both selling well, proving Detroit's contention that there are two ways for the market to grow. The fastest-rising car is Pontiac's Grand Prix, which has an electric rear-window defroster and the longest hood in the industry and retails for $3,777 without extras. Pontiac sold 24,874 of them in October and November, more than during all of the 1968 model year...
...Model Cities Program has occupied stage center for the last few months. The Model Cities area in Boston encompasses about 62,000 residents, mostly black, in the Roxbury, North Dorchester, and Jamaica Plain sections of Boston. White submitted an $18 million plan to the Council, including provisions for community control of schools within the area and replacement of police by neighborhood "security patrols...
SEVERAL rationales exist for Atkins' actions. He has won a "consensus" on the Model Cites program, which is a very democratic accomplishment. The implementation of the program will be easier. The Council has demonstrated its power. Perhaps, the program wouldn't have passed the Council even if Atkins had supported it, but that's impossible to say because Atkins was its most energetic opponent...
Doubtlessly Atkins has grown stronger politically. Little criticism of his actions has come from other blacks, yet Atkins played the leading role in curbing liberal Mayor White, an endearing fact to lower-class white Bostonians. Reactionary City Council President William Foley of South Boston praised Atkins' work on Model Cities as the best of any renewal committee chairman that he could remember...