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Twenty minutes after Kennedy's arrival, Richard Nixon's Government Cadillac pulled up and disgorged the Republican team. Nixon had recently emerged from a Statler-Hilton hotel suite where he spent a few uninterrupted hours of peace and thought. Inside the studio Nixon stepped straight up to the platform, put his wristwatch on his speaker's stand. He had been made up at home by an expert, and an accompanying lighting expert pronounced NBC's lights perfectly all right. A few minutes before they went on the air, Kennedy strolled over to the Vice President...
...outside interests in writing yearly. Since the Chrysler furor broke, hundreds of companies have sent probing questionnaires to executives . and directors, are quietly investigating their purchasing and marketing practices. One Chicago businessman has private detectives make periodic checks on some 200 executives: "If I hear of one driving a Cadillac and I know his salary won't permit it, I have him checked." But if an executive is doing a crack job, there are complications. "I've got a couple of department heads I'm suspicious of now, but their departmental results are so good I keep...
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...
...perennial race against Cadillac (which is little changed for 1961) Ford brought out a smaller, sharply restyled Lincoln Continental, which resembles the original Continental. Lincoln has been so hard hit by declining sales (down 22% so far 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...
...many people in his profession, George Abbott does not drink or smoke or talk about himself. He enjoys taking pretty girls out dancing and is especially expert at the cha-cha. Once widowed and once divorced, he has one talented daughter, Judith, and several grandchildren. He drives a new Cadillac and plays good golf for a beginner--he took it up this spring, leaving his tennis cronies looking for a fourth...