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...suit. Nobody wants one with narrow lapels. People who buy Valiants and Darts may buy a car just for transportation, but a person who spends $4,000 to $5,000 for a car wants to be different." Apparently on the same theory, Ford Motor Co.'s 1972 Thunderbird is bigger than the 1971 model both inside and out, and its V-shaped nose has been slightly blunted. The Ford Torino will have a new oval-shaped grille, and the Continental Mark IV will be 4 in. longer. The Mercury Montego, which has not sold well in 1971, is being...
...wine aficionados have an answer for such snobbery: flavored wines have been around for a long time. Spaniards favor sangria, made of red wine and fruit juices; French and Italian sweet vermouths are simply flavored wines; Greeks add resin to wine to produce retsina. Indeed, products like Thunderbird (a citrus-flavored wine that is 18% alcohol) have been on U.S. shelves for more than a decade. These cheap, more potent brands should continue to sell, mostly to the Skid Row set, despite the pop-wine invasion. What would a serious wino want, after all, with a low-alcohol tipple called...
...After climbing the ruins of Palenque, Uxmal and Chichen Itza, snorkeling at Cozumel, flying to Chicago, then driving a nine-year-old Thunderbird, our 15-year-old grandson and Willy, our dachshund, home to Wellsburg, W. Va., in eleven hours (legally, too), f grab my beloved TIME and find I "passed the arbitrary milestone of 65 into the limbo of old age" five years ago. I didn't know...
...Webb Corp., the Phoenix-based construction company, owns the Sahara and the Thunderbird among others; its casinos are thriving, though its stock has dropped from 23⅝ in 1969 to 10¼ last week. Contributing to the decline was a scandal that surfaced last month, when a Webb subsidiary sued the estate of a deceased Sahara official for $500,000 that he was alleged to have siphoned out of the casino. Investigations have uncovered evidence of blackmail and possibly murder...
...reduced her weight ("I like to feel close to the bone"), and her lifestyle. The haute-couture frocks have been exchanged for thrift-shop goods. French cooking has given way to health foods, plus occasional side orders of hash. Her father owns a Bentley, a Mercedes and a Thunderbird. Peter is a bike freak. Jane owns no car and does not drive...