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Dolled Up. For the first time since 1935, Ford has overtaken Chevrolet in the light-truck market. But the margin is slim, and each manufacturer predicts sales of 700,000 trucks this year. Ford tops its line with the sporty Ranchero, while Chevrolet counters with the El Camino. A long list of options includes air conditioning, power steering, automatic transmission, wooden steering wheels, bucket seats and high-performance engines. The price of a dolled-up pickup can approach $5,000, and the cost of the piggyback camping unit that slides into the truck bed can add another...
...first glance, Mexico City's newest hotel, the $24 million Camino Real, looks like a fortress. To guests, including the International Olympic committeemen checking in last week, that might have been a reassuring thought while students battled the army. But nothing could have been farther from the mind of Architect Ricardo Legorreta when he designed the hotel. His aim had been simply to create an oasis of greenery and quiet in the center of a bustling, dusty city. "People are pushed and rushed too much," says Legorreta. "To me, one of the nicest things a hotel...
...Camino Real might well have been a tall tower a few blocks from the fashionable Reforma boulevard, with its rooms overlooking Mexico City's great Chapultepec Park and an undistinguished, slightly seedy neighborhood. Instead, its brick-bearing walls rise just five stories high, and the 750 rooms all look inward over landscaped patios with gardens and glistening pools. Why? In part because the owners, the Western International hotel chain, wanted to build something different in Mexico City. Another reason, according to Jose Brockman, president of Western International Hotels de Mexico, "a high-rise hotel would have cost three times...
...death when she talked to her husband about heart transplants. Virginia Mae White, 43, had never had a serious illness as she celebrated the 22nd anniversary of her wedding to Charles W. ("Bill") White. Next evening, she had a massive brain hemorrhage and was taken to El Camino Hospital in Mountain View, only eight miles from Stanford. When her doctors said there was no hope, White asked whether there was any type of research going on relating to what had happened to his wife-"something where she could help...
JULIUS SUMNER MILLER Professor of Physics El Camino College Via Torrance, Calif...