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...core office underestimates every coursebecause once the staff members are hired, theycannot be fired," says Robert D. Gale, headteaching fellow for Foreign Cultures...
...Amid the gale-force winds whipping over the Astroturf of Holy Cross, the Crimson (3-0 overall, 1-0 lvy) was able to stay on its feet and--no pun intended--blew out the Minutemen of UMass...
...Gale grew up in an era when the postwar group of industrial designers -- men like GM's legendary Harley Earl, whose decree of "longer, lower, wider" became the maxim of the industry -- were captivating auto shows with cowls, tail fins and futuristic shapes that turned boxes on wheels into high-flying fashions of steel and chrome. But then Gale labored for almost 25 years in a company that was known mainly for a single product, the dull and dowdy economy K-cars. Although Chrysler's minivan, introduced in the mid-1980s, was a godsend to Little League teams...
...Gale was one of the first talents to be liberated by Chrysler's industrial revolution and the creation of independent platform teams. When he drew the assignment to create a new midsize car, he and chief engineer Francois Castaing physically began tearing down and breaking apart clay models, pulling out the wheels until they stood at the edge of the metal, stretching them to the very extremes front and back, pushing the windshield over the hood until it began to look like the front of a locomotive. The changes opened up the height, width and interior space in ways that...
What's next on the grownup's drawing board? Gale admits an aversion to ornamental trimmings like chrome, opera windows, whitewalls and wire wheel covers. "Personally," he says,"I'd nuke veneer interiors." But he confesses to finding some new inspiration in the pure American classics like the Cadillac touring cars of the 1930s. "I don't want my drivers to be thought of as flashy, opulent and dumb," he says, "but smart, bright and responsible." What kind of a look might that be? "What else?" says Gale, maybe seriously, and smiles. "Maybe cab-backward...