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...hotly competitive marketplace. With more choice than ever before, customers shopped for style as well. While G.M. slipped back from 51.5% to 44.4% of the auto market, Chrysler's jet-finned new models jumped from 15.4% to 19% of the market, and Ford's crisp styling apparently nudged it ahead of Chewy into the No. 1 sales spotlight for the first time since...
Then & Now. At one point during the week, Richard Nixon stepped from the White House into the crisp night air, paused for a moment to chat about his job. "I have no new duties," said Vice President Nixon, "but because I have been working more in the fields of foreign policy and defense, I am in a better position to help. The job changes. Five years ago the concentration was more on politics; now it's more on the Administration problems. Five years ago I wouldn't have been in such a position...
...programs, "that the Administration has not yet made the fundamental decisions that must be made. The Administration has not reacted as boldly as it should." One day later, after a parade of Pentagon experts led by Defense Secretary Neil McElroy had spelled out missile progress to the subcommittee in crisp, uncensored terms, George Mahon emerged from the hearing room with a different story. Said he:"It is obvious the three services have not fallen on their faces in ballistic-missiles progress...
Three weeks hence, uncertain, often intimidated, frequently bewildered, the Filipino voter will troop to the polls. His trip might be halted by party workers passing out "peso sandwiches"−a couple of crisp bills pressed between two sample ballots. His vote may or may not be counted. As of this week, there was no indication that he would get a proper answer to the question he asked when his beloved Ramon Magsaysay died. The question was and is: "Who will take care...
Harvard dominated the first quarter as they had hoped to control the entire game, pressing an attack of short passes, and peppering the skillful M.I.T. goalie with crisp shots. Halfbacks John Felstiner, Tony Oberschall and Marsh Schwarz repeatedly picked up M.I.T. goal kicks, feeding the forwards with well-placed passes the defense could not gets its feet...