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...years since it was created by the merger of Nash-Kelvinator* and Hudson Motor Car Co., the company has never been able to find a secure niche in the auto market. It prospered in the late 1950s by bringing out the first U.S. compact, the Rambler, but then lost much of its market share when General Motors, Ford and Chrysler started making compacts too. In the mid-1960s it tried to compete against the Big Three by offering a wider range of car sizes and lost disastrously. In 1970 A.M.C. again anticipated public taste by introducing the first U.S. subcompact...
...Master Mind junkie," says Molly Rambler, a teacher from Englewood, N.J. "I can't go to bed at night until I play a couple of games." The game creating such helpless addiction is an import from Britain. Since Master Mind first came on the market two years ago, 5 million sets have been bought in 60 different countries. Since last spring, 85,000 Master Mind sets have been sold in the U.S. at prices from $2.50 to $20. Thousands of players are addicted...
...where connections are dishonest and grappling, Betts cuts loose to the rootlessness of the road. Then he heads somewhere, to a place where human contact is open and real, people waiting on the front porch. And yet on the road there's nothing romanticized and self-conscious in the Rambler, not even anything individual--just freedom searching for a community...
...love American blues "tea bags"). Cooder likes to stay close to home, but when he must go to L.A., he dresses his otherwise modest person in smashing, vibrant shirts made especially for him by a neighbor friend named Sumiko and drives into town in a '55 Nash Rambler ("the only unhip car I could find...
...Newport, R.I., and Jacksonville, Fla., and on the waters of the Mediterranean, Navy Lieutenant (j.g.) David Eisenhower, 25, will return to Washington next month to seek his fortune in civilian life-though not without a little help from his friends. Waiting for him will be a $110,000 brick rambler in suburban Bethesda, Md., picked out by his wife Julie and her mother Pat Nixon but bought by C.G. ("Bebe") Rebozo, the President's businessman pal. The Eisenhowers will pay an undisclosed amount of rent, thus allowing Bebe, who has made millions in real estate and other ventures...