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...Club is helping the Grenada Yacht Club get back on its feet by sending down a five member race committee and a committee boat. The Mount Gay Rum Company is throwing a post-race party. The Rolex watch company is donating the prizes. "It's a veritable capitalist welcome-wagon...
...from going this route: banking. While Canada has just eleven banks and Britain has about 300, the U.S. has some 15,000. Nebraska alone has 283 different banks, Oklahoma 256 and Colorado 126. Says Walter Wriston, chairman of New York's Citicorp: "When the pioneers got off the wagon train going west, they set up a general store, a saloon and a bank." The general store and the saloon may be gone, but the bank probably remains, protected by state and federal legislation from encroaching competition by the big money-market banks...
...July. The front-wheel-drive minivans combine efficient use of interior space, with room for as many as seven passengers, and easy handling. Chrysler's models, named Dodge Caravan and Plymouth Voyager, are 16.7 in. lower and 21 in. shorter than standard vans like the Dodge Ram Wagon. The smaller size and improved aerodynamics created by the minivan's lower profile pay off in fuel economy. The new models get 37 m.p.g. on the highway, compared with 18 m.p.g. for the larger vans. But the new vans can carry only...
Minivans do not go for a miniprice. Chrysler's models start at $8,700 and run as high as $14,000. A Toyota Van Wagon equipped with an icemaker, front-and rear-seat air conditioner and twin sunroofs can cost $16,000. The average price of a new car sold in the U.S. today is close to $11,000. All the major automakers are going after this fast-growing market. Toyota will ship 40,000 of its Van Wagons to the U.S. this year, and Volkswagen expects to sell 25,000 Vanagons in America during 1984. General Motors...
...never felt so feminine." However, the black-bearded driver Alex, while helping a British woman carry her groceries, says aside, "I would never do this for my wife." For all the little cars darting about the streets, occasionally having to swerve around a horse-drawn hay wagon or a cow, no women drivers have been spotted in a week. The dark worry of terrorism that has lately attended all Olympic gatherings seems somewhat lighter on the eve of the XIV Winter Games (remember, Yugoslavia confounded Hitler without much help). Four years ago, at Lake Placid and Moscow, then I.O.C. President...