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...work miracles. As No. 4 in an industry almost totally controlled by Detroit's Big Three, AMC must fight just to stay alive, and in recent years many auto men doubted that the company could make it. Lately, though, Motown's mouse has begun to varoom. Sales of AMC's 1972 autos hit an eight-year high of 303,000 units, up 20% from the previous year; October sales of the '73s were 10% ahead of the same period last year. Next week the company will report a profit of between $25 million and $30 million...
...should let all the good-looking girls join free, then we'd have something. It's youth, baby, that's where it's at. The old blood's dying with the trees." Sparky continues ecstatically: "Just give me ten showgirls out here, and varoom, the young guys'll come out of Los Angeles in first gear. I'm putting up a big stand; I'm gonna have two go-go girls dancing on top of it at night, with spotlights on 'em, so people can see 'em from the highway...
...Hocker sits alone in his little office, a mass of naked wrinkles, glum, dispirited, forlorn, brooding about the passing of the golden age of nudism and wearily watching Sparky Blaine trying to create a last varoom...
...mean for this to sound like 'I had a vision,'" he has written) when an Esquire editor removed the "Dear Byron" form a 49-page, free-flowing memo on custom cars that Wolfe had submitted. The memo, minus salutation but otherwise unedited, ran as "There Goes [Varoom! Varoom] That Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby." Tom Wolfe had begun to deal with all that was extravagant and overpowering and vulgar in America on its own terms...
...boots, hair as long as a girl's, and a German Iron Cross. With his free hand, H.B. picks his nose and then thoughtfully scratches his crotch. On the stingy seat, wearing a grab-me sweater, sits his sheep (Nancy Sinatra). Behind them 20 other double-straddled sickles varoom...
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