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American Motors. The once boxy Ambassador and Classic now have sleek, sculptured roof lines and rounded-off rear fenders and trunk. Except for minor trim, the low-priced American is outwardly unchanged, but it offers an optional "E-stick" gearshift that enables the driver to change gears without a clutch and costs only one-third as much as an automatic transmission...
...have come a trio of fast-moving smaller producers, who now hold 13% of the market: Anaconda Aluminum, Harvey Aluminum and Ormet Corp., a subsidiary of Olin Mathieson. At the same time, the plastics industry has developed new products to compete with aluminum in pleasure boats, packaging and auto trim. And steel has started to offset aluminum's inroads by bringing out lighter, tougher and cheaper alloys and tin plates...
...discount outlets, from Seattle to Miami, by year's end. Long since recovered from the trauma of his ambassadorship to Ceylon-he won derisive headlines in 1957 for his inability to remember at a Senate confirmation hearing the name of Ceylon's late Prime Minister Solomon Bandaranaike-trim, Texas-born Max Gluck has found a cut-rate way to expand rapidly in discounting: he leases departments within established discount houses...
...Later, he spoke rudely about the iron rule of Majority Leader Lyndon Johnson, and advocated new appropriations that would have added an estimated $23 billion annually to the federal budget. Now, in the current session, Proxmire has inexplicably become an economic conservative. Most of his efforts have been to trim back appropriations. "He's a watchdog of the Treasury now." marvels one Wisconsin colleague. Counters Proxmire: "I've felt this way for a long time...
...SUSANNAH YORK, Alec Guinness' freckled daughter in Tunes of Glory, will certainly reach stardom on her own in Loss of Innocence, the film version of Rumer Godden's novel The Greengage Summer, which Columbia Pictures will release in the U.S. in the fall. With a trim, sylvan body, winter-sky-blue eyes and jonquil hair. 22-year-old Susannah is one of the few English girls who can seem equally natural nibbling strawberries in a May-fairy frock in The Players Restaurant at Wimbledon or sprinting eastward in a bikini on the beaches of the Mediterranean. Born...