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...might find yourself becoming one of the game's fanatics, like the guy who drove up from Albany (yeah, 3 1/2 hours away), class of '79, to play for his old house, streaked down the field for a breakaway goal or two, hopped back into his old blue cutlass after the game and rode off into the sunset with a victor's smile on his lips...
...their markets and profits disappear so quickly. Just 18 months ago, Detroit was fearful that it could not build enough big V-8-powered sedans to meet consumer demand. The industry in 1978 rang up $3 billion in profits. One hot-selling car: the $6,300 Oldsmobile Cutlass. It got a modest twelve miles to the gallon, but it had lots of vroom...
...cars. In October GM will roll out its A-cars, the redesigned successors to its strong-selling Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme and other intermediates. The auto industry, though, is impatiently waiting for GM's next model: the J-car, which will be unveiled in May or June. The J-car will be larger than a Ford Escort but smaller than the Dodge Aries. It is expected to get 28 m.p.g. in city driving. The new models will carry Chevrolet and Pontiac name plates and probably later Cadillac. They will come in a range of styles that will include a notchback...
...after Christmas 1976, John Louis Evans and a friend he met in prison, Wayne Ritter, rented an Oldsmobile Cutlass and went on a spree. By Evans' count, the pair committed 37 robberies, two extortions and nine kidnapings. When they got to Mobile, Ala., Evans shot a pawnbroker in the back while the victim's two daughters, aged 7 and 9, looked on. It was all a "deadly game," says Evans. "I was planning on dying. I would never go back to prison...
DIED. F. van Wyck Mason, 76, prolific and bestselling historical novelist (among his more than 60 books: Three Harbours, Stars on the Sea, Cutlass Empire); of a heart attack while swimming; near Southampton, Bermuda. A skilled storyteller especially interested in colonial and Civil War America, Mason embellished his complex plots with minute detail and romantic flourish. He also penned a popular series of tales of intrigue featuring Captain (later Major and Colonel) Hugh North, and during World War II served as chief military historian for Dwight Eisenhower's SHAEF command...