Word: 58s
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Buick, its production of '58s halted at 242,000, v. 400,000 in the '57 model year, has scrapped its boxy, overchromed styling, will turn out a comparatively chrome-free, conservative "comeback car" in a "complete break with the past." The longer, lower, wider '59, which will come out in mid-September, will taper from its flaring, high-finned rear to its shovel-snouted front. It will have slanting double headlights like the 1958 Lincoln's, and bigger front and rear windows. Only this year's toothy aluminum grille will remain...
...lost two months ago. He has managed to stall contract talks-and keep his members in line-until the 1959 models are getting ready to roll off the assembly lines, a time when a strike will hurt more than it would have in June. Stocks of unsold '58s have been whittled from 900,000 to a four-year July low of 672,000, which is only a two-month supply at current selling rates. (While automakers reduced January-July production from 3,913,043 last year to 2,574,566 this year, six-month sales have gone down...
Electronic countermeasures have become so vital that many bombers will carry nothing but electronic equipment. Sylvania Electric Products Inc., for instance, is developing a special counter-measures pod to be. carried by a B58 instead of a bomb load or air-to-ground missiles. One or more such B-58s will convoy bomb-armed bombers, shelter them under a canopy of deceitful signals, tell attacking missiles to go away, and, as a last resort, surround the formation with a swarm of small, big-looking decoys...
...Force itself. Reasons: 1) the B-52 depends for support, as the President said, on its jet tankers-but the U.S. now has only 30 such tankers operational, and is getting only four new ones a month under the Administration's slowdown; 2) no production contract for B-58s has yet been announced; and 3) the B58 was considered not as a successor to the long-range B-52 but to the B57 medium-range bomber...