Word: chevrolet
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Died. Arthur E. Summerfield, 73, Dwight Eisenhower's Postmaster General and campaign manager; of pneumonia; in West Palm Beach, Fla. A ninth-grade dropout, Summerfield built up one of the country's largest Chevrolet dealerships during the Depression. His 1940 Michigan campaign work for Wendell Willkie started his political career; by the 1952 Republican Convention, he was able to deliver a key bloc of delegates to Eisenhower. In return, Summerfield was appointed Eisenhower's campaign manager. Republican National Committee chairman, and finally Postmaster General...
Mass auto recalls have become as familiar an American ritual as the Sunday outing. Last December, for example, Chevrolet whistled back 6.7 million automobiles to treat motor-mount problems. Last week it was Ford Motor Co.'s turn. Ford announced that it was recalling 423,000 '72 Torinos and Montegos-the entire production of those two lines-to correct a rear axle defect. Unusual wearing of the bearings in the rear axle assembly, Ford explained, could cause the axle to separate or disengage from the wheel, or to jam, bringing the car to an abrupt halt. Thus...
...more employees tell tales outside the office or factory, more and more firms are bound to learn that it pays to listen. Edward A. Gregory, a General Motors body-shop inspector, went to Ralph Nader after managers had refused to acknowledge his warnings about a carbon monoxide leak in Chevrolet bodies and had transferred him to other tasks. When Nader and Gregory publicized the defect, G.M. in 1969 had to recall 3,000,000 cars. G.M. not only gave Gregory a $10,000 savings bond for the suggestion that helped repair the defect, but he was reinstated...
...dammit all, the man was crying. As the sequined obsequious applauded, as Taradash called for a chorus of "Smile," even as he was framed by the TV insignia of not only Shell ("our products perform") but Chevrolet ("...see the U.S.A.")--Chaplin was touched. After years of exile self-imposed after more than a decade of government harassment and two decades of press scandal-mongering, he had returned to reap the honor of an industry which, with its new "enlightened" veneer, is always up for the chance to acquire a "humane" credential. He gave the 44th annual presentation of awards...
...choruses an octet of actresses in this month's Ladies' Home Journal, but he had his quirks. "Howard usually drove a one-year-old Chevrolet," recalls Mitzi Gaynor. "He had hundreds of them, he said, 'because they give good service, and nobody stares into a year-old Chevrolet like they do into limousines.' " Loretta Young says Hughes once phoned her, announced that he was taking her to a play that night. "I told him I already had a date. He said, 'Fine, I'll buy three tickets.' My poor date didn...