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...Richard Petty, 28: the $112,000 Daytona 500 stock-car race; at Florida's 2.5-mile Daytona International Speedway. Driving a 1966 Plymouth with a special 550-h.p. "hemi-head" engine, Petty overtook Cale Yarborough's Ford on the 113th lap, led the rest of the way at an average 160.6 m.p.h...
...more of mutual advertising costs, while Ford offered to pay a generous half. Rental cars are usually bought through local dealers, but Chrysler supplies them on a leasing basis only, trades them for new cars after just six months to make sure customers never wind up renting a battered Plymouth or an un-tuned Dodge...
...Cars Unchanged. In the standard-sized cars, Detroit is sticking with the successful styling of the '65s. Chevy and Plymouth look much the same. Ford has rounded its square sides, but squared its previously rounded rear lights. The cars of struggling American Motors, whose market share has been dropping (to 3.4% in the first half of 1965), are scarcely changed. The higher-price lines have also added bigness and luxury without substantial restyling. Mercury has grown two inches to 18.3 feet. Buick's Riviera shucks its triangular front-vent windows in favor of a single pane, also...
...proven reserves by more than 100% (to 1.7 billion bbl.) and expanded his production by 150,000 bbl. per day. With that, Donnell moved into high gear. He acquired four more refineries and hundreds of gas stations by taking over Michigan's Aurora Gasoline Co. and Texas' Plymouth Oil Co., and in 1962 highlighted his company's rising scope by changing its name from Ohio to Marathon...
Noise Level. Bundy's keen appreciation of the legitimate uses of power was nurtured in an extraordinary family that has long been accustomed to authority. His mother, now 74, traces her lineage practically to Plymouth Rock, is a niece of longtime Harvard President A. Lawrence Lowell and Poetess Amy Lowell. His father, Harvey Hollister Bundy, was born in Grand Rapids, Mich., but managed to overcome that handicap and break into Boston's upper stratum by means of a brilliant marriage and an equally brilliant law career...