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...Chrysler Corp. comeback that swept the company from a 1954 low of 13% of the car market to 17.1% last year was the most dramatic industrial success story of 1955. The next step, exulted President Lester Lum Colbert, was to recapture Chrysler's traditional 20% of the market, "and then do even better." But Chrysler, far from doing better, was again slipping fast. At the end of the first six months of this year it had assembled only 14.85% of total industry output, 3.78 less than in the same period last year v. a 5.16 rise...
Unfair Advantage. In Springfield, Ill., Lester D. Plummer asked a judge to annul his month-old marriage on the ground that he was so "emotionally upset" by the divorce from his first wife that he didn't know what he was doing when he remarried...
Home from the Commonwealth conference in London, where they exchanged views with other Commonwealth leaders, Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent and External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson last week were prepared to announce some firm decisions about Canadian foreign policy...
...External Affairs Chief Lester Pearson, who was appointed two months ago, along with Norway's Halvard Lange and Italy's Gaetano Martino, to make a study of nonmilitary cooperation among members of the NATO alliance, will spend much of his time on that project in coming months. Pearson told a press conference that a long questionnaire had been sent to the 15 NATO capitals inviting suggestions on how the alliance could expand its economic, political and other non-military functions. The Pearson-Lange-Martino committee-"The Three Wise Men,"-will collate the replies and prepare a report...
...Columbia's Carl William Ackerman, 66, dean of the Graduate School of Journalism, which has turned out such noted news and magazine men as Lester Markel of the New York Times, Co-Editor Bruce Gould of the Ladies' Home Journal, and Columnist George Sokolsky. A graduate of the school's first class in 1913, Ackerman became dean in 1931, turned the school into a one-year graduate institution with as stiff requirements and standards as any in the country. He helped found the American Press Institute and the Maria Moors Cabot awards for journalists who serve inter...