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CHRYSLER'S Autofare is one big witty spoof on automania. A 34-ft.-high "car of the future" has giant bucket seats made of real buckets, an airmail box on the dashboard and, under the hood, a hot-water bottle. More fun is poked at machines in a puppet-movie, in the Auto-Animal Zoo and in the Engine Fun House...
...fact, what the cost-conscious Lyndon Johnson saved was a drop in the bucket compared to what he raised. In Detroit, 74 of the party faithful paid $1,000 apiece for cocktails and a presidential handshake. Then the President went to Cobo Hall where 1,700 paid $100 apiece to dine with...
...airport in Vientiane, Correspondent Frank McCulloch watched a young Laotian in dungarees servicing a small aircraft. The youth drained fuel from the plane into an open bucket, carried the pail into a shed where 500-lb. bombs, rockets and machine-gun ammunition were stored, picked up a tool box and sauntered back to the airplane. Only then did he throw away the cigarette he had been smoking all the while...
...Buenos Aires last week, customs officials were auctioning off a $100 million hoard of contraband-1,500 cars, mountains of nylons, radios and TV sets -confiscated over the last few years. It was only the merest drop in a very deep bucket. By conservative estimate, Argentine smugglers will do a $300 million business this year, while their counterparts in Brazil will gross an even handsomer $400 million. Total sales for all Latin America are well over $1 billion annually...
...Mustang," Lee Iacocca said at this week's premiere on the World's Fair grounds in New York, "Ford has actually created three cars in one." Aside from the basic $2,368 model (which is not so basic; it comes with bucket seats, padded dash, and leatherlike vinyl upholstery), anyone who wants to turn his Mustang into a little Thunderbird can load it with just about every luxury option Detroit has, from automatic transmission to a big V-8 to air conditioning. Finally, the sports-car purist who wants performance and more horsepower can spend...