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...Ninety-Eight, the Buick Electra 225 and the Chrysler New Yorker, top models in traditional medium-price lines, have evolved into luxury cars and penetrated the $4,000 mark. A growing array of luxury sports cars has also entered the field. Copying the early success of Ford's Thunderbird ($4,486 for a two-door hardtop), Detroit has made such entries as the Buick Riviera ($4,408), the Oldsmobile Starfire ($4,148) and Chrysler's 300-L ($4,168). The new sports cars combine racy lines, bucket seats and consoles, and plush, gadget-filled interiors, can cost more...
...head barely went under the water. Surfacing, I found my dinghy only three strokes away. Ten seconds after touching down I was in the dinghy. Fifty seconds later I had ripped open my survival kit, set the squawk-radio beam going, activated my 11-h.p. radio and called Thunderbird Two. The first thing I asked him was whether he had sunk that gunboat. He said he had cut it in two with his 20-mm. cannon. Then I asked if Old Dumbo [a rescue seaplane] was coming, and he said right away. The Dumbo landed a few minutes later...
...payments come in all sorts of packages. Thunderbird Wine gives a new Ford Thunderbird or the cash equivalent for doing one 20-second spot. Cesar Romero and Alexis Smith quickly snatched for Thunderbirds. Joanne Dru and Sebastian Cabot took the cash. James Mason agreed to plug the wine, but apparently felt that he was not in the Thunderbird class, demanded and got a Rolls-Royce instead. Now Sir Laurence Olivier is all but lined up. He wants not one but two Rolls-Royces, and for his 20 seconds of classical bouquet, he will probably get them...
...Detroit's growing fleet of cars with fastback roofs. The Holiday will be 210 in. long, weigh about 4,100 Ibs., come equipped with a 425-cu.-in. engine and cost about $4,400-a price that places it in direct competition with Ford's Thunderbird, which still dominates the luxury sports-car market. To absorb some of the Holiday's development costs, G.M. is making many of its parts interchangeable with the 1966 Buick Riviera, which could be adapted to front wheel drive at a later date...
...paralyzed half his chest, a stubborn virus infection, a hand injury, an automobile accident. In the next four years Venturi won only one minor tournament, and his official earnings last year amounted to exactly $3,848.33. There was a brief flurry of interest when he finished third in the Thunderbird Classic in early June. But last week, when it came time for the U.S. Open at the Congressional Country Club in Washington, D.C., nobody gave Venturi a chance...