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...half of this year, even with the disastrous first quarter, when new-car purchases slumped more than 20%. The acceleration caught Detroit by surprise, with production schedules throttled down. The resulting drain on stocks in the hands of dealers here and there created shortages of such popular models as Chevrolet Camaros, Mercury Cougars and Plymouth Furys...
Although he had a battered 1962 Chevrolet to make those ends meet, he sometimes had a couple of classes scheduled at the same hour. This didn't bother Walter, and besides, his study habits were rather erratic anyway. "He works best in spurts," says a fellow student. "Walter gets way behind; then he panics and does in a couple of days the same work that most Harvard and M.I.T. students take a month...
...model - only to get a flock of gripes. But the industry has not yet given up the fight on the fifth wheel. Later this month, Pontiac showrooms will have the sporty new Firebird, which has the same body shell as its G.M. cousin, the Chevrolet Camaro, but is four inches longer. The standard Fire bird is more powerful than the Camaro (165 h.p. as compared with 140 h.p., though both offer optional 325-h.p. engines), will cost "a little more" than Camaro's $2,466 and come equipped with an inflatable spare tire that will save enough trunk space...
...they became required to do so by U.S. law last September, foreign and domestic manufacturers have reported that some 800,000 late-model vehicles needed to be checked for possible safety flaws. The latest such announcement came last week: G.M. began recalling 269,000 of its 1967-model cars (Chevrolet Chevelles and El Caminos, Pontiac Tempests, Oldsmobile F-85s and Buick Specials), because of possible defects in their steering shafts. Such recalls do not mean that all the cars are defective. What they do mean is that Detroit is getting overly skittish about safety or else quality control...
Died. Ormond E. Hunt, 83, auto engineer, who in 1923 designed the first General Motors Chevrolet to compete successfully with Ford's Model T, incorporating such features as automatic windshield wipers, an electric horn and a longer, more stylish body, was duly awarded a vice-presidency by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., and continued to serve G.M. as a company director and technical troubleshooter, most notably during World War II, when he played a major role in converting auto production lines to tanks, trucks and planes; of cancer; in Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit...