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...guidelines on profits, they are in the process of rolling back prices and may even be forced to make some cash refunds to their customers. Last week a number of firms either were ordered to cut some prices or voluntarily announced reductions. The companies ranged in size from Ford Motor Co., which lowered the price tag on 31 car models by $16 to $50, and F.W. Woolworth Co., which was ordered to reinstate last summer's prices at its lunch counters, down to a little-known Texas garbage-disposal concern...
...having increasing trouble building cars that can hold together. As a result, the industry in the past five months has recalled more cars (more than 7,000,000) than it has sold. The biggest recall to date involved 6.7 million 1965 to 1969 Chevrolets that have possibly defective motor mounts; engines on some have twisted loose from the car frames...
...hold the axle in place for at least 100 miles, so that the driver has time to reach a garage. In doing no more than that, the company would have been following ample precedent. G.M., for example, will replace only a few of the defective Chevy motor mounts with new ones that cost $30 each. Instead, it in effect will strap in most engines by installing wire "restraints" that cost only $5 each...
...spacecraft emerged from behind the moon at the beginning of their 13th lunar revolution, Mattingly reported some chilling news: the backup circuit on a steering motor controlling Casper's bell-shaped engine nozzle during firings was swiveling the nozzle erratically back and forth-and Mattingly could do nothing about it. The astronauts were in no immediate danger, but under mission rules the command module's primary and secondary guidance systems must both be operational before a lunar landing can be attempted. The reason: if the command ship's engine cannot be controlled, the rocket power...
Mass auto recalls have become as familiar an American ritual as the Sunday outing. Last December, for example, Chevrolet whistled back 6.7 million automobiles to treat motor-mount problems. Last week it was Ford Motor Co.'s turn. Ford announced that it was recalling 423,000 '72 Torinos and Montegos-the entire production of those two lines-to correct a rear axle defect. Unusual wearing of the bearings in the rear axle assembly, Ford explained, could cause the axle to separate or disengage from the wheel, or to jam, bringing the car to an abrupt halt. Thus...