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Convertible sales may peak in a couple of years at about 50,000 to 75,000 a year, although other estimates run as high as 150,000. That would be a good market and a profitable one, but not as strong as 20 years ago. Prospective convertible buyers, however, do not care about those boring statis tics. What they want is the wind in their hair once more. As for dealers, the most important thing about convertibles is their uplifting effect on sales. Says Ed Rikess, a Chevy dealer in St. Paul: "If we get people...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Deciding to Go Topless | 3/21/1983 | See Source »

...eleven days, before rebounding a bit to $415 at week's end. On Wall Street, the prospect of a brisk economic recovery unleashed another stampede in the stock market. The Dow Jones industrial average closed at record highs on four consecutive days, finishing the week at an alltime peak...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Bracing for a Showdown | 3/14/1983 | See Source »

...last season's end, Co-Captain Dinneen says he is just feeling "relief Because you try and peak so many times in a season. This is the fourth time I've had to peak," He added. "But we've got one last thing to conquer that's Intercollegiate...

Author: By Carlad D. Williams, | Title: Racquetmen Whip Elis 7-2 to Take Ivies | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

Even at the peak of detente, the Soviet Union reserved to itself the power of the press: no American general-circulation publication was ever translated and sold on newsstands to ordinary citizens. Last week, during an era of renewed East-West tension, that barrier was broken in a small way: Soviet officials distributed 20,000 copies of the first issue of In the World of Science, a Russian-language version of Scientific American (worldwide circ. 1 million in eight languages) that is being produced under a licensing agreement with Mir, a Moscow publishing house. Said Yevgeni Velikhov, vice president...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Mir Science | 2/28/1983 | See Source »

...part of Coach's plan," Crimson Co-Captain Alex Lightfoot said, explaining her team's February success. "He knows that we can't peak too early." It takes time to get the lines playing well together...

Author: By Jeffrey A. Zucker, | Title: February's Team | 2/25/1983 | See Source »

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