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...Packard was also outselling last year 3 to 1, due almost entirely to its fast-moving little Lark. The company had already outproduced its 1958 total of 49,770 and made a $3,700,000 operating profit in 1958's fourth quarter, its first profit in five years. Chevrolet output, still rising, inched ahead of Ford production for the first time, 522,000 to 511,000. But Ford, with sales 40% ahead of the year-ago rate, claimed it still led in sales. The only glum news came from Buick, which got off to a fast start...
WEST GERMANY'S OPEL, a General Motors subsidiary, spurted to No. 2 spot within the company, counting cars and trucks. Last year Opel boosted production by more than 25%, to 315,945 units, well ahead of Oldsmobile, Buick, Pontiac and Cadillac, though far behind Chevrolet's 1,534,575. During year, Opel exported 19,500 cars...
...guides, rebel girls escorted visiting politicians, correspondents, money couriers. One 30-year-old mother, ordered to take a visitor through the lines quickly, loaded her two daughters, aged 9 and 13, into her Chevrolet and using them as camouflage, got speedily through. For those caught, the penalties were beatings, head shavings, sometimes rape, and death by torture...
...India, where the symbolic gesture means so much, the 20th century last week sought out the old-fashioned ways. In his personal turboprop Viscount Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru flew 500 miles from New Delhi south to Ahmedabad. There he stepped into a red and cream Chevrolet convertible, rode 37 miles into the countryside, and came to a stop in the dingy village of Gangad, a place so desolate that it specifically recalls Gandhi's bitter comment about India's "700,000 dungheaps, known as villages...
...religious wars. They wander among shrines and through deserts until the boy becomes convinced that it is his destiny to unite in his person Christ and the Lord Tepozteco. The Passion play of Tlaltenalco gives him his opportunity, and he enters the village on Palm Sunday, riding a Chevrolet...