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...other hand, Romney will have a problem with some of his dealers. Some 30% of them are auto bigamists; they sell a Big Three car as well as the Rambler, will probably carry the Big Three's line of small cars (though only Chevrolet, Ford and Plymouth dealers, of which Rambler has practically none, are expected to). Romney hopes that his hard core of 2,800 dealers will stick with Rambler. During the industry's 1958 slump, Rambler saved many of them; last year they made a 2.8% profit on their total sales v. .2% for the average...
...Histoire du Soldat in 1918, and orchestras have beefed up their percussion sections to four or five men. To mount last week's concert, Price had to rent some of his gaudier noisemakers, but one favorite set of instruments he already had on hand: the eight Ford and Chevrolet brake drums that he picked up two years ago in an automobile junk yard. Still missing from the ensemble's instrument list: the jawbone...
...Auto production slowed 2%, but last week's production schedule of 131,096 cars was 52% higher than the same week a year ago. So far in 1959, auto production is running 23% ahead of 1958, but there are signs of further slowing. Buick, Chevrolet and Mercury trimmed plans...
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Former Defense Minister Mohammed Ayub Khuhro, 60, long a dominating figure in Pakistan politics, was convicted of selling his 1958 Chevrolet on the black market for $12,000, almost three times the legal ceiling. He was fined $30,000 and sentenced to five years at hard labor. One of Karachi's main streets, named for him, would have to be renamed, and in prison he would get the "C" treatment instead of the "A" and "B" amenities (newspapers, private cells) usually reserved for people of his status. Shudders could be detected all over Karachi...