Word: cars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...General Motors' most pressing concerns is keeping Washington pacified. As the world's largest manufacturer, the company has long fretted over the possibility of antitrust action, even though it has taken over no domestic passenger-car firm for 50 years. Sensitive to the Administration's inflation worries, G.M. Chairman James Roche recently played the part of a diplomat in meeting with White House economists be fore announcing price increases (aver aging only 1.6%) on his 1969 models...
Refuting a Critic. Much to Detroit's surprise, General Motors carried its defense of competition to the point of providing a peek at some of its costing policies, normally a matter of utmost secrecy. The company estimated that its labor costs average about $1,000 per car, or 32% of each sales dollar. It put tooling costs at $134 per car, for styling and other changes. The figures were aimed at refuting charges by Auto Critic Ralph Nader, who in July asserted that "the direct and indirect labor in a medium-priced car doesn't exceed...
...auto-pricing controversy, he not only went to Washington but broke tradition by holding a press conference, with tour of his six top officers, to explain why the company had raised its '69 prices. This month he departed from tradition again by announcing plans for a small G.M. car (a foot longer than the West German Volkswagen) two years before it will be introduced. When G.M. opened its new 50-story Manhattan headquarters, Roche quipped that he had learned with "great relief" that the tower was only the twelfth tallest in town...
Paul's troubles begin when Lewis Miles, a young, mysterious asexual acidhead, jumps in front of Dorothy's car. She takes Lewis home as if he were a wounded bird. It turns out to be the first nice thing anyone ever did for the lad, and he responds by knocking off anyone who threatens Dorothy even slightly. Cleverly, mind you. No indictments or messy trials, just plausible suicides, auto accidents, and prop guns that turn out to be loaded...
...nine he can't quite decide what to make of himself. He dresses like a careless football coach and lives in a palace of oiled woods and lush fabrics; his mostly Hungarian sheep dog refuses to ride in the 1961 Studebaker he drives and Heimert refuses to trade the car in for anything but a Mercedes 300SL. He is Professor Heimert, Master of Eliot House Heimert, the Undergraduates' Advocate Heimert--a creature of the university, but not wholly or solely professor, administrator or student...