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They moved on to sophomore George Sorbara, and everyone seemed to agree on that: "C'mon, throw to 40." He even picked up a nickname. "How 'bout old Subaru? Hasn't he carried...
...Bricklin will begin importing 35,000 Yugos into the U.S. The four-passenger, front-wheel-drive auto will carry a $3,990 sticker price that will make it the cheapest new car on the U.S. market. Says Bricklin, 45, a New York City businessman who introduced the first Japanese Subaru to the U.S. in 1968 but crashed during the mid-1970s when he built a gull-winged sports car that bore his name: "The Yugo will be like a 19? hamburger with meat...
...game exhibition tour; one televised match with the Soviet All-Stars in Lake Placid provided $500,000 of the $1.3 million budget, about a tenth of which is funded by the U.S. Olympic Committee. The ski team has 23 sponsors (including Oscar de la Renta, Texas Instruments, Subaru) and a $4.5 million budget. The "amateur" skiers can strike rich endorsement deals as long as the money is paid through the team "for expenses...
...Fall). His mock hero, Johnny Lundgren, nicknamed Warlock, is a reluctant Swedish-American gumshoe who has been fired from his job as a foundation executive. He flees to the comforting semi-poverty of rural northern Michigan where irrelevance turns to comic Scandinavian angst. Trysts in his overheated Subaru prove difficult; his forays at gourmet cooking are disasters; insolvency threatens. Then, in the nick of time, Lundgren's wife Diana gets him a job with Dr. Rabun, a prosthetic Edison who designs sexual aids that imitate the motion of swimming porpoises. The doctor's problems: his extensive investments...
Kramer vs. Kramer notwithstanding, single fathers are a rare commodity in the U.S. When they meet, they tend to fall on each other's necks to share grievances and housekeeping secrets. Gene Ratkowski, who was listening as he drove to the airport, instantly pulled his '79 Subaru to the side of the road, phoned McCarthy and asked: "When's the meeting?" Now, six months later, the meeting is every Tuesday night, when 20 to 30 single dads gather, often at McCarthy's ranch-style home on Humboldt Hill. They include doctors, students, mechanics, a bus driver...