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...difference is critical. Even mass-produced as mandatory equipment, air bags would be costly: perhaps $200 a car. If produced only in limited numbers as an option, they would be still more expensive; Ford Motor Co. President Lee Iacocca figures that they might sell for $335 a car. Allstate Insurance Co., in full-page newspaper ads last week deploring the congressional action, said that "only the well-to-do" could afford the price of optional bags. It urged the Congress to reverse the measure and make bags mandatory...
...remember the prizes hidden behind numbers and match two of them to win the object. Split Second offers a nicely sadistic bonus to the day's big winner. He gets to select a car from among five beauties, but may keep it only if he picks one whose motor is set to start...
Outside Wall Street, the lifting of uncertainty could spur some new spending by both consumers and businessmen. Ford Motor Chairman Henry Ford II wryly wondered what the President's problems "have to do with selling cars," but added that "generally speaking, there is a lack of confidence on the part of the consumers in this country, and we believe that it has affected car sales in 1974. We would hope this confidence could be rebuilt." Chairman Henry Walker Jr., of the Honolulu-based Amfac, Inc., says that, "with Nixon safely out of the way," his company plans to move...
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