Word: mustangers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Motors and Chrysler announced price increases that will add $133 or more to the average retail price of 1974 cars. The biggest percentage increases will fall on hot-selling compact and subcompact models, though Ford's Mustang II compact is slated for no hike...
...getting the most flamboyant promotion is the Mustang II, with which Ford President Lee lacocca hopes to repeat the personal triumph he scored by bringing out the original Mustang in 1965. After years of growing longer and heavier, the Mustang has been restyled into a car a bit smaller than the original-one of the rare cases in which Detroit has shrunk the size of an existing model. The Mustang II's recommended basic price is $2,895 (about $500 more than the 1973 Mustang), but fully equipped with options it can run to more than $4,000; lacocca...
...automobile is the greatest friend nature ever had. Cars are affectionately named for animals (cougar, mustang, falcon, impala); gasolines keep engines clean; and there are seldom more than three vehicles on the road at any time...
Herbert's rise was spectacular, as he was perpetually on the "Five Percent List," the officers who win promotions faster because of exceptional performance. He served in every elite combat group in the armed services, and established a reputation as the best of the "mustang" officers, those who had come up through the ranks...
...becomes some vague principle of both vitality and civilization. The men are so laconic that when they speak of the meaning of their lives they obtrude on the narrative unbearably. The central theme just istn't well expressed; the worst of cowboy life is represented by the roping of mustangs to sell to dogfood and glue factories. Rosalie, top cowboy Gay's gal, objects to this cruelty. Would she have raised a ruckus about the meaninglessness of Gay's life had he lived in a cowboy heyday and been able to profitably hunt and trap, or shoot Indians and harass...