Word: plymouth
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Married. Gail Whitney, 22, daughter of Millionaire Sportsman Cornelius Vanderbilt Whitney, and Louis Stur, 36, Hungarian-born former economics teacher, now assistant manager of the Sun Valley (Idaho) Lodge, Gail's home since her 1959 divorce from Plymouth Oil Heir Richard Cowell; in Elko, Nevada...
...Which last week placed first in the Mobilgas Economy Run from Los Angeles to Chicago, with an average of 32.68 miles a gallon. Other winners in their classes: Corvair Monza for four and six-cylinder compacts with automatic transmission (29.35 m.p.g.), Buick Special for eight-cylinder compacts (25.09), Plymouth Savoy for standard-sized cars (23.15), Ford Fairlane for low-priced V-8s (21.33), Chrysler Newport for medium-priced eights (19.9), and Cadillac for high-priced eights...
...more than 100,000 different combinations. And compacts are available in 89 models produced under eleven nameplates. Only the small foreign car has not been burgeoning; since the U.S. compacts were introduced, sales of foreign cars have taken a sharp drop. Says A. C. Robbins, a Beverly Hills Chrysler-Plymouth dealer: "The manufacturers are trying to make a car for every $25 of the market." Some dealers complain that this proliferation confuses not only the customer but the salesman, too. Often compacts with different names are remarkably similar. General Motors' Olds F85 and Buick Special both have the same...
...Plymouth, Mich...
Some of the author's ideas are first-rate. A blackmailer shows up, for instance, with the information that the matriarch of the clan, who is very lineage-conscious, did indeed have an ancestor who sailed on the Mayflower-but who jumped ship at Plymouth, England, because the weather was unpleasant. And there is a married couple who feud by doing each other's chores-she shines his shoes, and in riposte he Duzzes her undies. Invention of this sort is too much trouble, however, and for the most part the author amuses himself with the same...