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DETROIT STRIKES BACK Chrysler has become the most aggressive U.S. automaker in putting these retailing ideas to work. The company angered many of its dealers by giving CarMax a franchise to sell new Chryslers, Plymouths and Jeep Eagles in Norcross, Georgia, beginning next month. Chrysler is also testing a new-car dealership called MidPark Jeep-Eagle in Dallas, where the fixed-price vehicles carry discounts of $1,800 to $2,000 below the manufacturer's suggested retail price. "People appreciate a low-pressure place that offers a fair price," says MidPark co-owner Jim DeWolfe. That spreading realization could soon...
Those who say that the parades are too gaudy and grand might, for example, consider them as acts of contrition. "We are overreacting a bit," says Troy Putman, an accountant in Norcross, Ga., "but patriotism is such a great alternative to what we have had. A major reason for the overreaction is that we are looking over the shoulders of the gulf soldiers and giving delayed honors to the Vietnam veterans...
Hinckley purchased the ammunition that was used at another pawn shop, this one in Lubbock, Texas. The type of bullet he chose was interesting-and frightening. The cartridges were Devastators, made by Bingham Ltd. of Norcross, Ga. These projectiles, akin to dumdum bullets, contain a small aluminum canister filled with an explosive compound. They cost at least twelve times as much as ordinary .22-cal. slugs...
...other, nontraditional choices arrayed before me have become countless; the themes seem to get more varied every year. The designers and versifiers at Hallmark, Rust Craft, Norcross have seen to that. Hallmark alone comes out with 1,000 new designs for Christmas every year. There are special cards for black grandfathers and for soul sisters. Worried about ecology? A Chicago company sells 300 designs printed on recycled paper. Got expensive tastes? Bloomingdale's in New York City offered a reproduction of Renoir's Le Moulin de la Galette at $183 for a box of 100. (It was sold...
Despite a host of professional critics, who call him a charlatan, Cole has garnered some support. Says Keith Norcross, consultant surgeon at Birmingham's Royal Orthopedic Hospital: "Dr. Cole has shown great courage. He's filling a gap left by the medical profession. The women helping Dr. Cole should be given all our praise for what they are doing. They have a generosity of spirit, compassion and understanding...