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...Press before joining TIME seven months ago. To prepare for this week's story, he took a trip back to his old haunts, joining Seaman and Correspondent Christopher Redman for interviews with executives. He drove around for a day in one of the first K-cars, the front-wheel-drive compacts that Chrysler hopes will turn the company's fortunes around. Says Taylor: "Detroit is learning how to build better small cars. These look and feel more solid and they drive better. The price tags, though, are a shocker...
...these late summer days, Detroit's automakers are bustling to complete billion-dollar programs that they hope will turn the fortunes of their industry. The Jefferson Avenue plant, for example, is daily turning out 400 new Dodge Aries, Chrysler's front-wheel-drive K-car that will determine whether the company survives as a major automobile producer...
...Aspen and Plymouth Volare have the dubious distinction of being two of the most recalled cars in history. Operating on the industry's fringe, American Motors Corp.'s small cars failed to win wide buyer approval. Its profits came largely from the popular, though fuel-thirsty, four-wheel-drive Jeep...
...drive for a true change in the role of the nominating convention began after the Democratic disaster in Chicago in 1968, at which the wheel-horses of the local political organizations chose Hubert Humphrey over Eugene McCarthy, to the accompaniment of street rioting...
...sustain a projected tetralogy. The author's next works allayed all fears. The Fabulous Riverboat gives Burton some delightful traveling companions. He and the grownup Alice Liddell Hargreaves (child model for Lewis Carroll's Alice) meet a cynical fellow named Samuel Langhorne Clemens, who constructs a side-wheel steamer to voyage upriver. The second volume also introduces Cyrano de Bergerac and England's King John, who attempted to steal the throne from his brother Richard in real life and who hijacks Clemens' boat on the Riverworld. But while these two books and the third volume...