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Page 14/The Battalion/Thursday, October 3, 1985 SHOE by Jeff MacNelly ’86 real car prices may drop to avoid ‘Super Sticker Shock’ Associated Press DETROIT — Chrysler Corp. Chairman Lee lacocca nas coined, a name for it: Super Sticker Shock. It’s the difference of up to $2,000 be tween the fire-sale prices of August and September ana the new prices of 1986 model cars. But hidden cuts in real car prices are coming the way of consumers, in the form of more free-of-charge op tions and warranties. And Ameri cans who are willing to wait a month or more to buy may see a return of the cut-rate financing and rebate war that endelthis week. “It’s conceivable we’ll see a return to incentives by the end of the month,” Harvey Heinbach, an auto motive industry analyst at Merrill Lynch in New York, said Wednes day. General Motors Corp. Chairman Roger B. Smith this week refused to rule out a return to incentives, say ing GM would monitor the situation each day. To Heinbdch, that means GM is ready to pounce at any time, and may have to do so soon. Wendy Beale, an analyst at Smith Barney Inc. in New York, said cut- rate financing and rebates will come back soon. “The market will be very compet itive next year and we’re looking for sales to drop,” Beale said. She cited a rising wave of foreign imports, and “increased U.S. production by the Japanese will make it that much more competitive.” A rule of thumb in Detroit is that automakers rarely, if ever, cut prices. Only American Motors Corp. did so last year, and its cars ac counted for less than 1.5 percent of the market for domestic makes. In stead, gimmicks are used to bring down overall prices, while base prices remain the same. GM started one of the industry’s biggest price wars in mid-August by offering 7.7 percent financing on loans for leftover 1985 cars. Ford Motor Co. followed and tossed in rebates. Chrysler came out with 7.5 percent and followed with rebates of up to $1,500. Industry sales set three consecutive records for 10-day selling periods. But for 1986, GM has raised rec ommended base prices an average 3 percent, Ford 2.9 percent and Chrysler a tentative 2 percent to 3 percent. AMC raised its prices 2.4 percent. “Naturally, I have to be honest with,you that the cliff of a $2,000 in crease may sticker-shock . . . people for a while,” lacocca told a recent gathering of company executives and reporters. Even with incentives, prices are not what they used to be. The aver age retail price paid for a car in 1970 was $3,430, according to the indus try journal Automotive News. A year ago, it was $11,100. The prices in clude options that buyers have been adding to their cars at brisk rates. An executive of Nissan Motor Co. Ltd., which already has raised prices as much as $400 a car for 1986, is warning that Japanese car prices may rise further if the value of the yen keeps falling against the dollar. Hudson dies quietly of AIDS at 59 (continued from page 1) cles describing Hudson as gay, the actor kept silent. In 1955, Hudson married his agent’s secretary, Phyllis Gates. The newlyweds had a much-publicized honeymoon in Florida, but sepa rated the following year and were di vorced in 1958. Hudson never re married. People magazine reported this year that the marriage had been set up by Universal Studios to dispel ru mors about Hudson. Olson refused to comment on such reports. “There has never been any defini tive statement about that from any one, including Rock himself,” Olson said Wednesday. Hudson, 6-foot-4 and ruggedly handsome, was a perennial top-10 box office attraction during the 1950s and 1960s when big studios created stars and built movies around them. He was eager to shed the image of a hollow-headed hunk and convince producers he could act. He got his chance in the 1956 epic, “Giant,” about oil and cattle barons in Texas. It earned him an Oscar nomination. Hudson was a most versatile lead ing man, starring in such big-scale films as “Something of Value,” “A Farewell to Arms,” “The Last Sun set,” and “A Gathering of Eagles.” His light touch with comedy spar kled opposite Doris Day in “Pillow Talk,” “Send Me No Flowers” and other romantic comedies. In 1980, after making 61 films, he made “The Mirror Crack’d” with Taylor — his last feature film. Television lured him back for “The Devlin Connection,” but he dropped out after quadruple bypass surgery in November 1981. But this past season, he returned on ABC-TV’s “Dynasty” as adven turer millionaire Daniel. Born Roascherer, Jr., on Nov. 17, 1925, in Winnetka, Ill., Hudson at tended high school with Charleton Heston, worked as a postman and joined the Navy as an air mechanic during World War II, before com ing to Hollywood. . Producer Aaron Spelling, whose company makes ABC’s “Dynasty,” said, “We were fortunate to be able to work with Rock Hudson, an out standing professional, a marvelous human being, and a man I was roud to call a friend. Rock’s illness as united our entertainment com munity in a massive fight against this dread disease.” ANNOUNCINGS PLAYBOY'S College Fiction Contest ~~P K FIRST PRIZE: $3,000 and publication of the winning story in a future issue of playboy magazine. SECOND PRIZE: $500 and a one-year subscription to playboy magazine. DEADLINE FOR ENTRIES: January 1, 1986 ADDRESS ALL ENTRIES TO: PLAYBOY COLLEGE FICTION CONTEST 919 N. Michigan Avenue, Chicago, IL 60611 JUDGES: The editors of playboy magazine. All decisions are final. CONTEST RULES 1. No purchase necessary. 2. Contest is open to all college students No age limit Employees of Playboy Enterprises Inc, its agents affiliates and families are not eligible. 3. To enter, submit your typed, double-spaced manuscript of 25 pages or less with a 3 x 5 card, listing your name, age, college affiliation, and permanent home address and phone to: PLAYBOY COLLEGE FICTION CONTEST, 919 North Michigan Avenue Chicago, Illinois 60611. Only one entry per person. All entries must be original works of fiction. All entries must be postmarked by January 1, 1986. Mutilated or illegible entries will be disqualified. 4. Prizes awarded to those entrants whose stories meet PLAYBOY’S standard for quality. PLAYBOY reserves the right to withhold prizes if the submitted entries do not meet PLAYBOY’S usual standards for publication. All decisions of the judges are final 5. Winning con testants will be notified by mail and may be obligated to sign and return an Affidavit of Eligibility within thirty (30) days of notification. In the event of non-compliance within this time period, alternate winners may be selected. Any prize notification letter or any prize returned to Playboy Enterprises Inc, and undeliverable may be awarded to an alternate winner. 6. PLAYBOY reserves the right to edit the First Prize winning story for publication. 7. Entry authorizes use of any prize winner's name, photograph and biographical information by Playboy Enterprises Inc, without further compensation to the winner. 8. PLAYBOY reserves the right to publish the winning entries in the U.S. and Foreign editions of PLAYBOY magazine and to reprint the winning entries in any English language or foreign edition anthologies or com pilations of PLAYBOY material 9. Contest is subject to all federal state and local laws and regulations Taxes on prizes are the sole responsibility of winning contestants Void where prohibited by law. 10. All manuscripts become the property of Playboy Enterprises Inc, and will not be returned A list of winners can be obtained by sending a self-addressed stamped envelope to Playboy Enterprises Inc, COLLEGE FICTION CONTEST, 919 North Michigan Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611. Plant your ad in The Battalion Classified " and harvest the RESULTS! Phone 845-2611 for help in placing your ad. Photographer files lawsuit against CS (continued from page 1) duct vis-a-vis ‘normal noise, pedes trian and vehicular traffic,’ . . . (and) it permits selective enforcement by city officials in determining what conduct is proscribed under the or dinance.” In the suit in which Marks was named as a defendant, the jury was “stacked with single family homeow ners,” Michulka said. “During the voir dire examination of the jurors I found that there were no college students and no multiple family homeowners on the jury pan el," Michulka said. “The odds are against this happening in a city the size of College Station.” Michulka said he did not object to this at the time of the trial though because he wanted to “get on with the trial.” Cathy Locke, College Station’s city attorney, was unavailable for com ment Wednesday. However, Assis tant City Attorney Barry Clar was. “I wasn’t working for the city when the jurors were picked for the case (in which Marks was named de fendant),” Clar said. As for the suit Marks has filed against the city, Clar said, “We’ll just have to wait and see what the courts say about its constitutiona lity.” Marks’ neighbors said Tuesday they have no objections to him being in tne complex. Enrollment unaffected by increase (continued from page 1) students registered this fall, 178 more students than in the fall 1984 semester. TCU undergraduate enrollment gained 202 students, up from the fall 1984 Figure of 5,617. There were 23 fewer graduate students at TCU this semester down from the 1984 total of 925. Rice University Registrar James Williamson said Rice had 4,000 stu dents enroll this fall, nearly un changed from last year’s Figure. Wil liamson said Rice, a private university, had not broken down the enrollment Figures into classes, but he said graduate student and trans fer student enrollment also was vir tually unchanged. The only enrollment figure avail able from Southern Methodist Uni versity was the 1985 fall enrollment figure — 9,070. 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