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...close 6-3 decision over Navy. But Page has been collecting his individual laurels, Palmer beat Briggs in the quarterfinals of the University Club Tournament last month and then beat teammate Elliot Berry for the championship. Last weekend Page finished second in the White Tournament at the Merion Cricket Club, beaten in the finals by Sam Howe, the nation's number-two amateur...
Help from G.M. The 1971 model year looks like the year of the small car, and Chrysler is well positioned to catch the trend. In January, it will begin importing two minicars, the Japanese-made Colt and the English-produced Cricket. Added to the Valiant and Dart, which have captured 37% of this year's compact market, they will give Chrysler the broadest range of small cars offered by any U.S. automaker...
There is a strong element of luck in the turnaround. The strike that has shut down General Motors undoubtedly has helped Chrysler's fourth-quarter sales, and it will also prevent G.M.'s Vega from getting the long sales head start on the Colt and Cricket that once looked likely. The biggest reason for the improvement, however, is the aggressive direction that Chrysler is getting from the new management of President Riccardo, 46, and Group Vice President Eugene A. Cafiero, 44, who is in charge of auto operations. They took over in January, when former President Virgil Boyd...
These are the days when the songs of the cricket and the cicada are heard in the land. Appropriately enough, American and British scientists have published some arresting studies of the motivations of the noisy insects...
...Mole crickets, so named because they dig underground burrows, also make loud noises with amorous intent, says British Zoologist H.C. Bennet-Clark. In fact, they make their burrows in the shape of double-horned acoustic amplifiers to concentrate and focus their siren sounds for maximum effect in attracting females. They produce the noise by rubbing a toothed vein on one forewing with a pluck on the other. University of Florida Entomologist Thomas J. Walker explains that male field crickets produce three identifiable songs: one to hail a likely lover, another to beguile one already enthralled, and a third to warn...