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...more money to spend, the camper can look over the variety of mobile campsites in the showrooms. Volkswagen's Camper comes fitted with bunks and a sophisticated assortment of kitchen equipment, sells for $2,973 (plus taxes and shipping); Chevrolet has a similar model, and both Land-Rovers and Ford station wagons are promoted with special camping equipment. There are small house trailers mounted on pickup trucks, also called "campers" (some are available on a you-rent-it basis), which feature refrigerators, butane or propane stoves, utensils, even hot and cold running water, showers, toilets and air conditioners (about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Recreation: Ah, Wilderness? | 7/14/1961 | See Source »

...economy got its biggest lift in May from the auto industry, where production was up 9%. Not since 1929, the maiden year of the model A. had Ford sold so many Fords in May. Over at General Motors, Chevrolet enjoyed its best month this year and the second-best May in history. Sales rose...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Detroit's New Line-Up | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...Chevrolet, as in 18 of the past 20 years, continues to be the fastest seller. Its registered sales in the first four months were off by more than 100,000 from 1960, but its share of the market held fairly steady at 21%. Chevy lost part of its sales to its own brother, Corvair, which scored with the Monza-a hot-selling, bucket-seat job that increased Corvair's market slice from 3.3% to 5.6%, second highest among individual compact models...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: State of Business: Detroit's New Line-Up | 6/23/1961 | See Source »

...Mary, Mary, she doesn't grasp things: "I hear voices all right, but I can't pick out the verbs." After an urn or two of coffee, she begins to pick them out?on a typewriter in the third-floor master bedroom. She has given up using the celebrated Chevrolet as an office, "because I ran out of places to park. People would drive past and wave." She is still engagingly casual about her work, although, as she has remarked, "I consider any writer serious who makes more than $20,000 a year...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Show Business: BROADWAY | 4/14/1961 | See Source »

...letters were not all straight orders. The mayor of Magnolia, Ark., reported that his city had ordered replacements for its city vehicles back in January. But, he said, Chevrolet has not as yet delivered the cars. "This does not look like they are too perturbed about business, does it?" Many cities, agreeing to support Mariani, asked for business in return. Coral Gables, Fla., hoped that Detroit could send more tourists. The burgess of the borough of Phoenixville, Pa., who also works for a boiler company, sent along boiler literature. Orangeburg, S.C., asked the mayor to "anticipate your need for textiles...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Selling from City Hall | 4/7/1961 | See Source »

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