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...Albrecht, pastor of the South Miami Lutheran Church, scorns the practice of "roping people for fund-raising dinners in competition with restaurants." But the Very Rev. Nicholas Maestrini, Superior of the Pontifical Institute for Foreign Missions, each year raises $65,000 by a $100-a-plate dinner at Cobo Hall in Detroit. The sociable, old-fashioned church supper remains a respected but inefficient way of raising funds...
...fact, what the cost-conscious Lyndon Johnson saved was a drop in the bucket compared to what he raised. In Detroit, 74 of the party faithful paid $1,000 apiece for cocktails and a presidential handshake. Then the President went to Cobo Hall where 1,700 paid $100 apiece to dine with...
Pitch-Black Room. Even Honeywell's heating controls have become more sophisticated. In Detroit's Cobo Hall, a Honeywell control panel not only regulates air conditioning but also operates the public address system, lights and fire alarms and monitors the 1,800-car garage; whenever the carbon monoxide gets too strong, Honeywell's Data Center automatically turns on exhaust fans. Altogether Honeywell has installed some 1,000 such units, including two in Manhattan's massive Chase Manhattan Bank building. Last week the company signed a $100,000 contract for a distant and unusual control project...
Virtually all automakers have adopted Ford's Thunderbird roof line, characterized by squared-off lines, knife edges and wide rear pillars. (At Cobo Hall, Ford needled its rivals for their unabashed plagiarism with signs declaring that Ford has "the roof that tops them all.") A more subtle piracy from Ford is the copying of the Lincoln Continental's smooth slab sides by Buick. Oldsmobile and Pontiac. Chrysler, too, is expected to follow this trend next year, now that the 1961 Continental's designer, Elwood Engel, has been lured away to be Chrysler's styling chief...
Nordhoff, who had come to the U.S. to dedicate the new $2,500,000 Volkswagen headquarters in New Jersey, noted that nary a Volkswagen was to be seen around Cobo Hall. "Well," said he genially, "this is a 'national' auto show, isn't it?" To a luncheon audience that included Henry Ford II, G.M. Chairman Frederic Donner and Chrysler's President Lynn Townsend, he urged U.S. and foreign automakers to make common cause in ending all trade barriers in the free world. "I look with the same great concern as you do on the protectionist thinking...