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Controversy keeps dogging Louis Elwood Wolfson. On grounds that he had milked the company of millions, the Government in 1956 refused to renew his contract to run the Capital Transit bus-and-trolley line in Washington, D.C. In 1958, Merritt-Chapman & Scott Co., of which Wolfson is chairman and controlling shareholder, pleaded nolo contendere to charges of bribing a county official in Washington State to help win the big Priest Rapids Dam construction job; the company paid a penalty of $50,000. Also that year, the Securities & Exchange Commission charged that Wolfson tried to drive down the market in American...
...Said Willkie, speaking at Elwood, Ind.: "It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free...
Chrysler's one completely restyled car is the high-priced Imperial, which now resembles the clean-limbed, handsome Lincoln Continental and was, in fact, designed by the same man: Elwood Engel, 46, who was lured away from Ford in October 1961 to become vice president for styling at Chrysler. Because of the huge outlays and years of lead time required to produce a completely new car, the Imperial is the first Chrysler car that Engel has thoroughly redesigned...
...longer. The plump Thunderbird will be completely restyled to give it le .n-looking body lines. The Rambler American will grow four inches, look more like the larger Rambler models. Chrysler's Imperial will resemble the Lincoln Continental-and Detroit is hardly surprised. After all, new Chrysler Stylist Elwood Engel came from Ford, where he was largely responsible for the Lincoln...
...Reds opened up on the two unarmed families in a withering blast of carbine and submachine-gun fire. Three-year-old Thomas Makil fell with a bullet in his leg, and slugs ripped through his four-month-old sister Janie's body into her father, killing them both. Elwood Jacobsen jerked backward and fell dead into the road. "I started hollering 'Elwood, Elwood,' " said Mrs. Jacobsen, "but I got no answer." In a flash, the Reds disappeared into the jungle; moments later, a truckload of government troops lumbered into sight down the road. For the latest victims...