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...singer's apartment that other tenants grew grumpily accustomed to being stopped and searched by bodyguards. Ayhan's apartment was kept plentifully stocked with Menderes' favorite Black Sea caviar and raki. For favors rendered, Menderes presented Ayhan with a black-lacquered American-style bar, a Buick of her own, and the use of a government limousine and chauffeur. By 1955 Menderes was spending more and more time with a new mistress, and Ayhan evidently decided that the way to hold him was to have a baby. Though she told investigators she had twice before been pregnant during...
...Donner's first jobs when he took over at G.M. in 1958 was approving the new 1960 luxury-size compacts-Buick Special, Olds F85 and Pontiac Tempest -then in the clay-model stage. At first skeptical of the compacts-he prefers the term small cars-Donner now thinks that the auto industry has been "witnessing a series of changes that may prove little short of revolutionary over the long run." But Donner does not feel that the compacts will sweep all before their path. He still expects the majority of G.M.'s customers to buy larger cars. Says...
...Hope Buick Show (NBC, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). Hope plays Gaylord Goober, the people's choice, with Guest Stars Ginger Rogers and Perry Como...
Chevrolet and Oldsmobile joined Buick and Cadillac (TIME, Oct. 3) in announcing no price increases for their standard cars. Studebaker-Packard said it would cut prices an average of $39 on its 1961 cars. Chrysler Corp. held the line on its Plymouths and Dodges and all but two series of the Imperial. It reduced the tags on its Valiant compacts by $19 on the economy series and $34 on the luxury models; Chevrolet trimmed $35 off its Corvair line. Pontiac introduced its new four-cylinder Tempest compact, which has a transaxle-a combination of transmission and axle in the rear...
...this year to 14,000 cars v. 12% gain by Cadillac to 110,000 cars) that production for 1961 is limited to two models: a four-door sedan and a four-door convertible, the first car of that type to be mass produced in the U.S. since Cadillac and Buick dropped their Phaetons...