Word: chapin
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...race with ruin, the new bosses of American Motors Corp. last week decided to rev up their smallest and-nowadays-least popular car: the compact Rambler American. "Between the small imports and the nearest U.S.-built models, no American car is reaching out to the consumer," said Roy D. Chapin Jr., who became A.M.C. chairman only four weeks ago. "The Rambler is going to be driven right into the center of this...
Last week there was turning aplenty-though it was not exactly the kind Evans had in mind. After a long and contentious board of directors meeting in Detroit came the "early retirement" of Abernethy and the "resignation" of Evans. Into their places went new Chairman Roy Chapin Jr., 51, whom Evans had hand-picked as general manager last September, and new President William V. Luneburg, 56, a vice president who joined A.M.C. in 1963 as an Abernethy recruit...
Grosse Pointe neighbor Chapin be made president, with Luneburg as his No. 2 man. Both Evans and Abernethy argued their cases-while the other was out of the room. When it came to a vote, the twelve-man board was split down the middle. Trying for compromise, they told Evans that while Chapin and Luneburg could replace Abernethy, the company had little cash to spare for three top-level salaries. Evans got the hint, and bowed out with Abernethy...
TIME, it turns out, is full of chefs, from Newsmarker Bruce Chapin, who can turn out Julia's supreme de volatile, to Editor Peter Martin, who mixes up popovers and curried eggs for Sunday breakfast. Researcher Betty Suyker, a longtime Child enthusiast who gets credit for first suggesting this week's cover, is considered our best cook. Two years ago, she spent three weeks perfecting her culinary techniques at L'Ecole des Trois Gourmandes, the Paris school which Julia still helps...
...money-losing American Motors, it has no brand-new cars, but it has streamlined all the old ones, changed the name of its Classic to Rebel. Last week A.M.C.'s Executive Vice President Roy D. Chapin Jr., 51, was upgraded in title to general manager; the word was that if American's '67s do not sell well, Chapin will take over the top job from President Roy Abernethy...