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...survivors have learned some hard lessons. The most costly: never collide head-on with the U.S. compacts in price and size. Violating this rule all but finished the British Sunbeam Rapier and Austin, cut Hillman's U.S. sales by 76%. With the solitary exception of France's $2,250 middle-sized Peugeot-which is holding its own because of its reputation for high-quality workmanship-the successful imports are those that sell below the $1,800 bottom price of Detroit's compacts or those specifically designed for the luxury and sports-car markets...
Blodgett leaped 23 feet, 2 1/2 inches in the broad jump to beat Yale's Jim Axtel by 3 1/2 inches and then competed at night in the Hillman 45-yard high hurdles. With a second in the second heat, Blodgett qualified for the semifinals but then withdrew because of a leg cramp...
...York's International Airport, when Lumumba and self-styled Congo Developer Louis Detwiler arrived early one morning, they were met by a probing team made up of Contributing Editor Jerrold L. Schecter, New York Correspondent Serrell Hillman and Researcher Gayle Williams...
...balance with the U.S. was the worst of all-exports to the U.S. up 7.4%, imports up a startling 95.6%. Britain's trade deficit hit $168 million in May, $272 million in June."Frightening," says Lord Rootes, chairman of the Dollar Exports Council (and of Rootes Motors, whose Hillman Minx has been hard-hit by U.S. compacts). "We who pride ourselves on being a great trading nation are simply falling behind...
Some irate customers took dead aim on ex-Dairyman Earle M. Hillman of Bangor, Republican senate president, who cast the deciding vote to defeat one version of the bill after a senate tie. So many customers canceled orders from Bangor's Footman-Hillman Dairy that the dairy's owners started painting Hillman's name off their trucks and explained that they had bought him out more than four years ago. Next, boycotters turned on another Bangor dairy owned by Hillman's son, heckled him, his family and his customers until he went out of business last...