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...infected by Washington pessimism. General Motors Chairman Frederic G. Donner pointed out that consumer incomes are at an alltime high, predicted industry and G.M. sales would "be matched or even exceeded in 1961." Ford Chairman Henry Ford II agreed. Donner argued that current dealer inventories are no drag on the market but a necessity, if the dealer is to supply buyers with the wide choice of cars available. This year the car shopper has a choice of 54 name brands and more than 300 models...
...possibility of a deal was suggested by stocky, wavy-haired Judge J. Cullen Ganey, who feared that otherwise the cases would drag on for years. In months of behind-the-scenes negotiations, often in Judge Ganey's chambers, both sides worked out a tentative agreement: the Government would accept nolo pleas in 13 of the cases, but would expect defendants in the other seven cases to plead guilty. Judge Ganey has indicated that, in ruling on the pleas, he intends to go along with the Government's request...
...whined overhead and sprayed against trees and buildings. But a crowd of curious Saigonese nevertheless sauntered up to watch. An old woman riding by in a taxi was hit and killed; her body was dumped near the palace wall. To cheers from the crowd, daredevil youngsters ran out to drag wounded rebel soldiers back to safety...
This rationale served while Kennedy's machine rolled relentlessly toward the nomination. Hopefully, the expediency motive could be tucked away after the convention victory; but the apologists had to drag it out again to abort the North's small uproar over the inclusion of Johnson on the ticket, and to excuse other disappointing aspects of the Kennedy campaign...
...independent electors' ticket in Mississippi, he handily carried Texas and South Carolina, which had been predicted for Nixon. During the campaign, many observers had thought-and said-that Republican Henry Cabot Lodge was a positive asset to his ticket while Democrat Lyndon B. Johnson was a drag on his. Nixon repeatedly stressed Lodge's presence; Kennedy often acted as though he had never heard of Johnson. Yet in the final votes there were few signs that Lodge had helped the Republicans in any specific way-and there was plenty of evidence that Johnson had helped the Democrats overcome...