Word: detroit
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...thing about Walter Winshall is that he does like to keep busy. Son of a Detroit dentist, he graduated from high school after winning a National Merit Scholarship and enrolled at 16 in an electrical-engineering course at Cambridge's Massachusetts Institute of Technology. There he was an editor of the student weekly, played intercollegiate freshman hockey, participated in intramural football and softball, was rushing chairman of his fraternity, played a nice game of bridge, invested in the stock market, dated lots of girls (sometimes two in the same night), graduated in 1964 with a B average, and enrolled...
...automakers clung to the prediction that 8,300,000 cars would be sold in the U.S. in 1967. This would make it the third best year in history, after 1965's record 9,300,000 sales and last year's 9,000,000. All that was needed, Detroit figured, was a springtime upturn in sales. This month, with spring in its waning days, something of the sort was finally evident...
First came the news that industry sales in May, with General Motors and Chrysler both registering gains, were up 7% over May 1966, the first month this year that Detroit has bettered year-earlier performances. Last week, Ford got into the act, announcing that its sales during June's first ten days were a whopping 21% ahead of the same period last year. With Chrysler again advancing (though General Motors slipped slightly), overall industry sales in early June were 4% better than last year's pace. Said Ford Division General Manager M. S. McLaughlin: "This is the turn...
Modest and mixed though it may be, the improvement was especially welcome, since the downturn that had been hurting Detroit seemed not to affect imports. In fact, sales of foreign-made autos are running 14% ahead of last year, when a record 658,000 imports were sold in the U.S., and foreign automakers now expect to sell better than 700,000 cars by year's end. The likelihood of an import record is even more remarkable since Volkswagen, though still accounting for well over half of all imports, is selling no more cars in the U.S. than...
...strongest - or at least the most interesting - argument may belong to Detroit. They have the league's No. 1 hitter in Al Kaline (.349); better still, after 21 years without a pennant, they are finally behaving like Tigers instead of tabbies. Beaming with approval as his players fought a donnybrook with the Kansas City Athletics, Detroit Manager Mayo Smith announced: "This ball club is playing as a team, and I think that is well demonstrated by the fact that we have been in three altercations in eight days...