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...afternoon last week, a retired businessman and his wife left their pleasant villa outside Paris to drive two of their sons back to boarding school in the family Buick. One of their two nieces, left behind, looked up from the dinner she was preparing and screamed. Two-men, heads shrouded in black hoods, had entered the house...
...Khan's wife was robbed of $500,000 worth on the Riviera in 1949. It was not. however, so much the size of the haul that gave the burglary its special interest as the identity of the householder and the fact that on his return in the Buick he dismissed the whole affair as "nothing but a miserable little robbery...
FRONT-RUNNING FORD officially took lead in 1957 road race by dint of year's first R. L. Polk registration figures. Final score for January shows sales of 110,454 Fords, v. 101,116 Chevrolets, while Plymouth captured third place from Buick...
January and February production figures for the auto industry, released in Detroit last week, solidly documented the comeback of Chrysler Corp. and the slump in General Motors. Jubilant Chrysler announced that Plymouth was now back in third place, which it lost to Buick in 1954. For the first two months of 1957, Plymouth turned out 128,228 cars as against 100,274 Buicks. For Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert, that was only part of the good news. Every car in the Chrysler line showed substantial production gains. Overall Chrysler car output in February was up 63% over...
While Plymouth was pushing ahead of Buick, Ford was giving Chevrolet tough competition for first place, and in hopes of bigger sales, was actually outproducing Chevrolet. In the first two months Ford turned out 286,923 cars, up nearly 48,000 from last year, and some 10,000 ahead of Chevy. Overall, G.M.'s production was 10% under last year. Except for Pontiac and Cadillac, all of its divisions had trimmed production sharply, and G.M. was producing only 47% of the nation's cars v. 53% last year. Automen pointed out that production did not necessarily match sales...