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Three services were held at the Broadway Church of Christ in Lubbock, Texas last Sunday (two in the morning and one at night); there was a giant picnic for 2,000 church members at noon, and at 3 p.m. there was a going-away party with an air-conditioned Buick as the main gift. Object of all the attention: Broadway Church's personable pastor-Matt Norvel Young, 41, an expansive man in an expanding church...
...began in the do-it-now days of the Korean emergency, when top Air Force brass farmed out part of a 2,700-plane order for Thunderstreaks because Republic Aviation Corp. was unable to build the jets fast enough. The Air Force gave the contract to G.M.'s Buick-Oldsmobile-Pontiac assembly division at Kansas City, Kans., agreed to pay the automaker all costs plus a 5.9% profit on an initial order of 71 planes, with the understanding that this cost experience would be used in figuring later profits. As it turned out, said Auditor Powers, in subsequent negotiations...
...stayed anchored in India's Calcutta, offended because he was offered what he considered a lowly Cabinet job in Pakistan. No enthusiast for a theocratic Moslem state anyway, he made his home in India until India's tax collectors clamped down on his business, rugs and 1947 Buick...
...share of the auto market down to about 41% so far this year, General Motors will spend between $500 million and $600 million, probably more than any other company, to make sure that it does not miss igsS's style parade, as it did this year. Since both Buick and Oldsmobile had completely new bodies in 1957, they were slated for only a minor touch-up in 1958. But the competition from Ford's and Chrysler's low-and medium-priced designs has been so rugged that G.M. put on a crash redesign program, has revamped both...
...BUICK and OLDSMOBILE will both get major styling surgery, especially Buick, which will probably lose its No. 3 spot to Plymouth this year. Buick, tossing away its unsightly 1957 roof struts and chopped-up rear windows, will have a smooth roof, wrap-around rear window, a revamped grille, dual headlights and tail fins...