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Like M.I.T.'s Robinson, he is also ac quainted with business. So far this year, he has turned out three other covers on some of the exciting aspects of the American boom: the story of General Electric's Ralph Cordiner and the atomic energy industry, the telephone-man cover on A.T. & T., and the rise of American Motors' George Romney and the compact car. The result of the team work between Gart and Jamieson, and the story of the financial world's fastest-growing phenomenon, you can read in the BUSINESS cover story on The Prudent...
MISSILE COMPETITION for Air Force Titan's inertial-guidance systems was won by G.M.'s AC Spark Plug Division over American Bosch Arma Corp. Contract's worth: about $300 million in next few years...
Last week Ed Ragsdale announced his retirement. G.M. handed his job to Edward Dumas Rollert, 47, boss of its Harrison Radiator Division at Lockport, N.Y. Like Ragsdale, Engineer Rollert moved up via manufacturing instead of sales. He joined G.M. out of Purdue ('33), rose in the AC Spark Plug Division as metallurgist, chief tool-and-die designer, assistant works manager. During the Korean war he managed the Kansas City, Kans., Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac plant, made his mark by converting it into G.M.'s first dual-purpose plant, turning out cars and F-84F Thunderstreak jet fighters...
...Britain's Austin-Healey Sprite, a junior edition of the popular Austin-Healey 100 sports car. It has seats for two, a convertible top, and a price tag suited to college-boy billfolds: $1,795. Another entry: the handsome AC Aceca hardtop coupé that seats two with plenty of luggage space, goes 106 m.p.h., and costs around...
What do you say?" As it turned out, the U.S. newsmen ac companying Nixon faced dangers of their own when the Caracas mobs started to swarm the next day. At the Maiquetia Airport, the newsmen got their share of the mob's spittle from 200 shoving high school students waiting for Nixon. Knowing that more trouble was coming, Wilson and six other newsmen scorned the closed cars assigned them, chose instead to ride with the photographers in an open-topped truck that directly preceded Nixon...