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...inventor (with the late Carl L. Norden) of World War II's famed Norden bombsight, a New York-born engineer who started collaborating with the older, more inspired Norden in 1923 and in 1939 under Navy commission lifted off the drawing board and into production the compact (12-in. by 19-in.), though enormously complex, bombsight that in the final phase used only two settings, gave U.S. bombardiers their much-touted "pickle-barrel" accuracy; from a duodenal ulcer; in Wareham, Mass...
...price cuts for his slow-moving Rambler American economy line. The first sales figures showed an encouraging upturn-and Chapin, dining in a Chicago restaurant, cheerily ordered strolling musicians to play Just in Time. The American's $1,839 base price - well under that of any other U.S. compact and only $200 more than the Volkswagen-has indeed helped tune up sales, which in April rose 8% over the same month last year, to 7,371 cars. Nevertheless, as of last week, most of the sounds coming out of A.M.C.'s brick headquarters on Detroit's Plymouth...
History deprived Canadians of the customary sources of nationalism. The British North America Act was, in essence, a Confederation not of free provinces but of colonies (Quebec, Ontario, Nova Scotia and New Brunswick). It was a quietly negotiated compact between ruled and ruling. Other colonies and territories joined the Confederation over the years, and Canada slipped toward independence almost effortlessly. At Vimy Ridge in World War I, the courage of Canadian fighting men won Canada the courtesy of a separate signature on the treaty of Versailles. But not until 1931 did Canada achieve genuine independence...
When he became chairman, president, and general manager of American Motors in 1954, the company was in financial straits. It was Romney who led the public relations campaigns for the new "compact" Rambler to compete against what he termed "gas-guzzling dinosaurs" of the bigger companies. American Motors stopped production of its large cars, the already poor-selling Nash and Hudson, and concentrated on the Rambler. By the time Romney resigned to run for the Michigan governorship in 1962, American Motors was a money-maker...
...figures are minuscule by the standards of such Western giants as General Motors, Ford, or even Volkswagen. But in Skoda's case, they are significant not only to Czechoslovakia but to all of Communist Eastern Europe. If nothing else, Skoda's snappy, rugged little family compact, the 1000 MB, proves that Communism can at least try to compete in highly competitive western auto markets. Where such products as Russia's Zil and East Germany's Trabant have failed to make even the smallest dent in the Western market, Skoda's 1000 MB has become increasingly...