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Despite this, Detroit's sales projections for the year took on a firmer though by no means unanimous tone. Ford now expects a 6.6 million-car U.S. year, including 500,000 imports. Said Chevrolet Boss Ed Cole, just back from a two-week nationwide tour of dealers: "I am sure that 1960 will see sales in the U.S. in the area of 7,000,000 cars." American Motors' George Romney. whose plants are running round the clock to meet orders, still stuck to his prediction that car sales will run between 7,000,000 and 7.5 million this...
...Robert H. L. Slater, professor of World Religions and director of the Center. Chief among these will be discussion, since the anonymous grant establishing the Center called for "sympathetic study of the religions of the world" so that each student "may gain a clear insight and a firmer faith in the truth of his own religion...
...gift of $500,000 "to encourage spiritual communication between men of different religious faiths" will make the construction possible. By means of a "sympathetic study of the religions of the world," each scholar in the center "may gain a clear insight and firmer faith in the truth of his own religion," according to terms of the donation...
...King Sisavang Vong of Laos had found a way to survive history simply by ignoring it. He never openly fought for independence from the French, but instead of earning the resentment of his people, he won only greater affection. When the French urged him to take a firmer stand against the Japanese in World War II, he patiently explained: "My people do not know how to fight; they only know how to sing and make love." Later he proved equally uncooperative with the invading Japanese, and French commandos had to parachute in to rescue him. Finally, in 1953, when...
...acknowledge that Jimmy Hoffa does have some minor virtues, but what about his major virtues? He is a good, thoughtful, considerate, kind, devoted husband and family man, and that is enough to make him a hero in my eyes. The American home could be a firmer foundation for a healthy America if husbands and fathers would follow his example...