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...Yupmobiles. A shiny red BMW2-door 325es "loaded" with air conditioning,cassette stereo, electric windows and sunroof topsout at $26,000 is the first car. Practicalfamily oriented professionals move on to theboxier profile of the Volvo 760 Turbo, for a mere$25,600. But Harvard MBA's immediately spend their$70,000 first year's starting salary on a brandnew Mercedes 560SEC...
...What does it mean," thinks a Boston policeman stopping a Black teenager speeding in a Saab turbo, "when Blacks can routinely live as good or better lives than I?" The policeman rebels against the thought, deciding that a kid having fun in a graduation present must be a felon, and so instead of receiving a moving violation, someone's child is dragged down to the station though he has registration in hand...
...Long Island. The family commutes over the long hauls in a nine- passenger Hawker Siddeley jet and covers shorter distances in chartered helicopters. Lauren can be seen gliding through Manhattan in a limousine with the initials RL on the door, but he prefers to pilot his chromeless 1979 Porsche Turbo Carrera, which is custom-finished entirely in black...
...terrorist or planted on the 747 before it took off for London. Another scenario suggested that the extra 9,000-lb. jet engine being carried back to India for repairs might have dislodged, forcing the aircraft down. Such ferrying of an engine, in addition to the 747's four turbo fanjets, is considered routine airline practice, and Boeing officials dismissed the theory as "extremely farfetched." Had the engine caused a problem, they said, the pilot would have had time to make a Mayday call. Instead, the plane plummeted from its cruising altitude of 31,000 ft. in silence, disappearing from...
...christened Alcyone, after the daughter of the Greek god of wind, but the ancient Greeks never saw her like. The sailing ship harnesses the wind with a superefficient system of cylindrical aluminum "turbo sails." The 72- ton vessel also has engines and was developed by Neptune's modern descendant, Jacques Cousteau, and two other French designers who hoped to show that the sails could save some conventional ships up to 35% on fuel bills. Setting out on her maiden voyage from France five weeks ago, the ship made stops in the ! Azores and Bermuda before arriving last week...