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This year Mr. Sloan would have been pleased. From Chevrolet there is the powerful silhouette of the first new Corvette in 13 years and the return of the once popular Malibu family sedan with both headroom and horsepower to spare. From Oldsmobile there is the Intrigue, a new nameplate for an elegantly tailored four-door sedan that, its chief designer says, "looks like a car dressed in a Chanel suit." From Pontiac, there is a two-tone macho minivan for suburbanites who still lust for the fast lane. From Saturn, the EV1, a noiseless, all-aluminum electric vehicle. From Cadillac...
...that means re-emphasizing traditional middle-American, mainstream strengths at Chevrolet while almost totally overhauling the customer base and appeal at Oldsmobile. Image makers at Olds are seeking to shed the stodgy, budget-priced profile that appealed to older buyers (the average age of its Ciera sedan buyers crested at a silvery 68--it was your father's Oldsmobile) into one that is being meticulously groomed and patterned to attract upscale, younger import buyers...
...inside GM's design studios, and its artists work under Brave New World banners exhorting them to remember what their 2000-era cars and trucks are supposed to represent. Flying above one such future vehicle is its own set of May Day credos: BOLD! PURPOSEFUL! ATHLETIC! PERSONAL! SPORT SEDAN PERFORMANCE WITH INTERIOR VERSATILITY TO HAUL THEIR "STUFF" TO COMPLEMENT THEIR ACTIVE LIFE-STYLES. Yet GM's new dots, arrows and product teams have also begun to eliminate the rule of its autocrats, who could famously terrify designers and redesign a car by one simple strut around a new product. Says...
...Appeal reporter Steven G. Tompkins, who now serves as a spokesman for Georgia Governor Zell Miller. In 1993 Tompkins wrote, "On April 3 [the day before the killing], King returned to Memphis. Army agents from the 111th Military Intelligence Group shadowed his movements and monitored radio traffic from a sedan crammed with electronic equipment. Eight Green Beret soldiers from an 'Operation Detachment Alpha 184 Team' were also in Memphis carrying out an unknown mission." Although Tompkins wrote that he had "uncovered no hard evidence that Army Intelligence played any role in King's assassination," Pepper takes the tale...
...wouldn't be a deal-breaker and who is or isn't a player? If the rap for intercepting cell-phone conversations (up to five years in prison) is considered too harsh for this sort of infraction, what about giving this guy some lesser penalty like suspension of luxury-sedan driving privileges or confiscation of red suspenders...