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...FORD. Reversing a two-year decline, Ford edged up from 26.1% to 26.4% on 543,463 autos sold. The big factors in Ford's comeback: the restyled, standard-sized Galaxie and the Comet, another '63 compact that was given longer, more flowing lines for '64. Ford's attractive new Thunderbird and roomier Continental are also selling well, but the preference for new looks and larger autos has dented sales of its little-changed intermediate Fairlane and compact Falcon...
Dirty Snowballs. Whipple is the author of the "dirty snowball" theory of comets. He believes comets form, molecule by molecule, out of frozen gases beyond the outermost planets. They pick up bits of dust and start drifting ever so slowly toward the distant sun. When they gather speed as they approach the sun, their surface gets hotter, turning some of the frozen gas to vapor and freeing some of the dust to form the comets' glowing heads and tails. When an old comet disintegrates, it leaves bits of fluff to wander in space...
...such intriguing theories, no one really knows much about comets. Even the brightest ones have a central nucleus only a few miles in diameter, too small to be picked out with the biggest telescope. In one of the most imaginative proposals yet, Space Technology Laboratories of Redondo Beach, Calif., plans to send a probe aloft to intercept a comet...
...paid admen and eager auto executives seldom rest in their search for something new. Among a crop of 1964 models previewed recently in Detroit were cars yclept: the Pontiac Brougham (pronounced broom), after England's Lord Brougham (1778-1868), who designed the original four-seater carriage; the Mercury Comet Caliente, which is "hot" in Spanish and hot in Detroit; the intermediate Chevrolet Chevelle-with the additives "300," "Malibu" or "Malibu SS"; and the Chrysler 300-K, which is simply the next after...
Some of Detroit's 1964 offerings will be changed simply because their styling has been around too long. The four-year-old Falcon will lose its rounded look for more angular lines, and the Comet will look sleeker and longer. The plump Thunderbird will be completely restyled to give it le .n-looking body lines. The Rambler American will grow four inches, look more like the larger Rambler models. Chrysler's Imperial will resemble the Lincoln Continental-and Detroit is hardly surprised. After all, new Chrysler Stylist Elwood Engel came from Ford, where he was largely responsible...