Word: zephyr
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...mound, knows where it will end up. Gripped with the fingertips and, unlike every other pitch, thrown with a completely stiff wrist, the ball should not spin. A revolving ball slices through the air; a spinless knuckleball floats free in the breeze, its trajectory altered by every passing zephyr. A gale wind in Candlestick Park or, it would seem at times, a cough from a fan in the front row of the Astrodome can change its course, making it the hardest pitch to hit. Says Cincinnati Reds Second Baseman Joe Morgan: "The knuckleball messes up your timing...
When Wade hunches over his banjo, he is a figure of rapturous communion, a man lost in a love affair with an instrument. The songs may be poignantly plaintive, boisterously celebratory or ironically funny. His fingers pluck the strings with steely precision or waft over them like a passing zephyr. Always there is the pulsing drive of his ever moving feet, percussively accenting the chords and the words...
Chrysler had problems on just about every front. Its car deliveries dropped 6.6%, partly because of recall problems with the new Dodge Omni and Plymouth Horizon subcompacts, and competition from Ford's new Fairmont and Zephyr compacts. Truck deliveries fell 20% as squabbles in Washington over new emission and safety standards delayed plant changeovers and production startups. Though the tide has turned−sales of cars and trucks rose sharply in April−Chrysler expects an "unusually long" plant closing for a retooling this fall to neutralize the gains. Unsmilingly, Riccardo predicted: "The last nine months of the year...
...Chevette, introduced in 1975 as a response to soaring gasoline prices and mandated federal fuel economy standards, is now the industry's hottest seller; its sales have doubled in the past three months. Ford's Fairmont, a new '78 compact, and Mercury's Zephyr have replaced the Maverick and Mercury Comet. They have also been standouts, with sales jumping 300% over their predecessors...
...reflecting the rise of their nations' currencies against the dollar and promising less stiff import competition to Detroit. More important, the domestic industry has come up with some hot new or redesigned models. GM has heavily scored with a new four-door Chevette. Ford's Fairmont and Zephyr, which have replaced the Maverick and the Comet in the compact class, are moving out of showrooms in startling numbers. Indeed, the Fairmont is selling faster than the Mustang did when it was introduced in 1965. Says Ford President Lee lacocca: "We expect to top the first-year Mustang record...