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...buyers want luxury along with fuel economy. More and more small cars now sport such features as velour upholstery, vinyl roofs, simulated-wood instrument panels, even chrome-plated grilles and hood ornaments. Such features are pushing prices up close to what drivers used to pay for big cars; a Plymouth Valiant two-door hardtop with all those features, plus three-speed windshield wipers, folding armrest and several other amenities, lists at the factory for about $3,500. Drivers are buying cars plain and fancy, low-and high-priced-anything, as long as it is small...
...temporarily closed 16 big-car assembly plants and laid off 137,000 workers; meanwhile it is expanding production of subcompact Vegas by 40% in the 1974 model year. Chrysler Corp, is temporarily closing three of its big-car factories next month, and converting one from production of standard-size Plymouth Furys and Dodge Monacos to compact Valiants and Darts. American Motors, the smallest of the carmakers, has been prepared for the change all along: it has concentrated on production of little Hornets and Gremlins. AMC sales are running 27% ahead of last year, and executives say that only a shortage...
...given poetically apt new names and boundaries that cut across existing state lines. The new state of Bitterroot, for instance, named for a local mountain range, takes in most of Idaho, slices of Oregon, Montana, Washington and northwest Wyoming. Cochise unites major portions of Arizona and New Mexico. Plymouth embraces the city of Boston, the eastern portion of Massachusetts, and part of New Hampshire. New York City and environs would become the state of Hudson, and Alamo on the map is basically Texas without the panhandle. Under these circumstances, perhaps Old Glory could use some revitalizing, too, and Whitney Smith...
...Plymouth, Mass., where the holiday has been observed since 1621, disgruntled Indians insisted that this year's traditional, Pilgrim-dominated celebration take long-overdue notice of who taught the English intruders to plant corn in the first place. The city's religious sermon was delivered by an Indian, and the town pageant did not feature the usual costumed Pilgrims carrying muskets ? a historical falsification, say the Indians, since the 17th century Chief Massosoit by keeping his peaceful pledge to the Pilgrim settlers all his life never gave them reason to carry guns...
Close to the midseason mark, Broadway has been parched for laughs. Well, the drought is over. A comic geyser is flooding the Plymouth Theater with hilarity. Two British zanies, Peter Cook and Dudley Moore, have released it, and these men are stark-raving bonkers. Cook, the tall one, has the imperturbable aplomb of a tightly furled umbrella. Moore, the short one, scurries round like a libidinous opossum. Employing literate wit and razor-edged satire, the pair take off on the Nativity, a homosexual Othello, Germaine Greer's theories on Women's Lib and the perils of running...