Word: evanses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Until he invested more than $2,000,000 in ailing American Motors Corp. to become its No. 1 stockholder, Robert Beverley Evans of Grosse Pointe, Mich., cut a bigger figure as a socialite and sportsman than as an industrialist. Though he owns a dozen companies with combined sales of $20...
Scowls at Style. Last week, to the surprise of unflamboyant automen, American Motors' board elected Evans as chairman. He succeeded Richard E. Cross, who became chairman of the executive committee in order to devote more time to his Detroit law practice. A.M.C.'s crusty Roy Abernethy remained as...
The 1967 models, he and Abernethy promised, will change that. While competitors will cautiously emphasize safety, A.M.C. will promote speed-"from zero to 60 m.p.h. in nine seconds." Later on, said Evans, "we're going after the youth market. That means a different styling. Our job is to get...
If there was any lesson to be learned from 1965's hodgepodge of off-year elections, it was precisely this one: that the American voter is becoming a more independent cuss every year, focusing on issues rather than ideologies. Evans believes the G.O.P. would do well to remember this...
Who's Unfair? Oddly enough, high school kids-even Negro high school kids, who supposedly bear the brunt of inequity-are not terribly perturbed. Draft-bound Donnie E. Smith, 18. a senior at New York's Charles Evans Hughes High School, has kept his cool about it all...