Word: six
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with 330,000 of the 1979 model autos and trucks, GM has started its own incentives of $100 to $400 per vehicle for dealers. Yet no come-ons are needed for small models. People attempting to buy the gas-sipping Chevrolet Citation and other GM "X-cars" have waited six months or more for delivery...
...available without long waits at the free markets where farmers sell produce from their private lots for inflated prices. Beef and pork go for around $4.07 per lb. rather than $1.36 in the shops, while potatoes, carrots, tomatoes, oranges and apples are all on sale at prices roughly six times higher than the official level...
...Six inspectors, including Egon Ronay, flew each of the airlines three times, on day and night flights. They traveled economy class. (Not included in the survey, because they do not have direct U.K.-North America service, were Air France, Lufthansa and Alitalia.) Each airline was graded according to 14 criteria, with an optimum of 100%, ranging from in-flight announcements to the selection of magazines and newspapers aboard. The score...
Lest battered opponents hope that the dynasty might run down, Faust points to the in-school farm teams that he and his staff of twelve assistant coaches have set up: the freshmen and sophomore squads were both unbeaten this year, and the frosh defense gave up just six points in eight games. Meanwhile Moeller, which draws its students from 13 parishes in Cincinnati's middle-class northeastern suburbs, is besieged with applications from parents of would-be gridiron greats. They figure that the school's $725 tuition ($825 for non-Catholics) is a good investment, and with reason...
Faust, 44, a gravel-voiced six-footer, is second-generation football. His father, Gerard Sr., now 72, coached for 20 years in Dayton, where young Jerry was an all-state quarterback. After starring at the University of Dayton, Faust joined local Chaminade High as a backfield coach. Hired in 1960 by Moeller to start a freshman football team, Faust first fielded a varsity in 1963, and the Fighting Crusaders dynasty was born...