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Wheeling out the 1956 Plymouth, Dodge, DeSoto, Chrysler and Imperial passenger cars at a party for the press this week, Chrysler President Lester Lum ("Tex") Colbert sounded a challenge to the other automakers. Said Colbert: Chrysler Corp., which captured 18.1% of the automobile market in the first seven months of 1955, is "out to get 20% of the automobile business, and more...
...Herbert Lester Barnet, 46, onetime New York lawyer, was named president of Pepsi-Cola, replacing Alfred Nu Steele, who moved up to the board chairmanship and remains chief executive officer. Barnet developed a nodding acquaintance with Pepsi-Cola as a member of a New York law firm which handled Pepsi's business, did so well that in 1949 he went over full time. Put in charge of all concessions, Barnet hit the spot, and within a year was twice promoted to veep in charge of national sales, then to vice president in charge of domestic operations...
...LESTER C. GUILBERT Buffalo
Social Security. In Artesia, N.Mex., insisting that the Government had no right to seize his $83 bank account for alleged back taxes, Insurance Adjuster Lester Plummer sued Internal Revenue Agent C. Buck Caviness and "other unknown persons" for $4.5 billion, explained: "I might as well get up into figures the Government can understand...
...Chrysler Corp. President Lester Colbert: automobiles on superhighways may be driven by electronic "automatic pilots," with human guidance required only at exits and entrances...