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...since Walter Chrysler opened his first assembly line in 1925: launch a successful new mass-production auto company. The De Lorean is a low-riding, two-seat sports car that seems more suitable for Monte Carlo than Main Street. Two of the vehicle's distinctive features: a brushed stainless-steel finish expected to be rustproof for at least 25 years and unusual gull-wing doors that open up instead of swinging out and make it simple for someone as lanky as the 6-ft. 4-in. De Lorean to nestle into the plush leather seats...
...Louis has long been loved as a city of beer and baseball, riverboats and tree-lined avenues, French fur traders, German burghers, and that distinctive 630-ft.-high stainless-steel arch, a symbol of the city's historic role as "Gateway to the West." At the turn of the century, St. Louis was the nation's fourth largest city. It is the birthplace of T.S. Eliot, the ice cream cone and, some say, the blues...
Another scarce drug now bubbling out of Genentech's stainless-steel fermentation vat is human growth hormone, used to treat dwarfism. Only limited quantities have been available, most of it extracted from the pituitary glands of cadavers. In a test of the hormone, 20 youngsters are currently getting doses of bacterially produced HGH at London's Great Ormond Street Hospital for Sick Children...
...delivered until June 1981, seven people have put down the required $10,000 deposit. American Express offers to let customers place the remainder on their credit cards. Drivers who still do not like to think about m.p.g. but are not up to a gold DeLorean might consider the stainless-steel model. It will cost about...
...rings because of the value of their gold. Ohio State's campus bookstore this month is offering $68.95 for a man's ten-carat gold ring if the money is used toward the purchase of a $95 Lustrium number. But if civilians are switching to stainless-steel bands, West Point cadets are not trading in their tradition. And at more than $300 apiece this year, their rings rival Montezuma...