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...slender, aristocratic graduate of Exeter, Princeton and Harvard Law School, Du Pont stumped the state in a 1973 Oldsmobile Cutlass that was driven by a college student. He preached fiscal integrity and charged Tribbitt with running the statehouse for partisan advantage. Du Pont told his audiences, "We have government of the politicians, by the politicians and for the politicians." Du Pont promises to run a lean, efficient administration, but he faces the likelihood of a large deficit and the certainty of a low bond rating in the state of Delaware...
...Independence is a triumph not only for Hancock but for the whole Boston delegation; yet their triumph is shadowed by the absence of James Otis. Accused of treason by the British customs commissioners in 1769, he publicly denounced them as liars. One of them attacked him with a cutlass and delivered such a severe blow to the head that Otis has since lost his reason. He was awarded ?2,000 in damages, but has never successfully resumed his career. He now lives in retirement, with intermittent spells of insanity...
...year of some 622,000 cars has been larger than the increases at all the other automakers combined. Among GM's leaders: the Chevrolet Monte Carlo and the Pontiac Grand Prix, both carrying base prices of $4,600 to $5,200, and its compact Chevy Nova and Oldsmobile Cutlass, which lists at $4,500 and has been the industry's top seller for two years running...
...some months now, Hugh Downs has been proclaiming on national television that he got 19.7 m.p.g. driving a Ford LTD from Phoenix to Los Angeles. Cadillac advertises that its cars get up to 15.8 m.p.g., and Oldsmobile claims 17.6 m.p.g. for its Cutlass...
Both the Cadillac and Cutlass low m.p.g. figures, like many others that automakers proclaim, were achieved on proving grounds, scarcely much of a test of what motorists can expect in normal driving. One indication: Chevrolet -which commendably has stayed out of the race to advertise mileage figures -found last year that four of its Impalas got 18 m.p.g. on proving grounds...