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...funny droop nose may recall the Concorde jet, but the exIts funny droop nose may recall the Concorde jet, but the experimental car unveiled by British Leyland last week does something much better than fly supersonic: driven at a steady 30 m.p.h., it gets 100 miles to the gallon. Push the pedal to 60 m.p.h., and BL's Energy Conservation Vehicle 2, or ECV, still gets a respectable 60 m.p.g...
...think that people are any less concerned about registration," Nora Leyland, a spokesman for the Boston Alliance Against Registration and the Draft says, adding "But the end of the term is here and people have to pass their finals." James Bristol, director of the national anti-draft effort for the American Friends Service Committee, concurs with Leyland's judgement but declines to explain the "cooling off" period of April...
...memorable escape route is the Coventry-Stratford-Cotswolds Loop, a drive of 200 to 300 miles that can take a leisurely three or four days, with scarcely a neon sign in sight. (A Leyland Mini rents for about $100 a week, unlimited mileage, and sips petrol as if it were rare brandy.) Coventry has risen nobly from the ashes of its 1940 bombing. Next to the surviving western spire of the late medieval cathedral stands the great modern cathedral with vertical thrusts of rose-colored stone and Graham Sutherland's striking altar tapestry...
...Chairman Edwardes, consequently, will have time to try to make sense out of Leyland's disorganized management structure. He succeeds Sir Richard Dobson, who hastened his own departure by making injudicious remarks about Leyland "bribing Wogs"-a reference to allegations of overseas payoffs by Leyland. Dobson spoke at a private dinner party, but a guest tape-recorded his comments, and they were later published...
...quintupled profits in five years to $47.5 million. He won the Guardian Young Businessman of the Year award in 1975. Though he will have to negotiate a companywide pact, Edwardes is a fervent believer in decentralized management who pledges to use "ruthless logic" in organizing executive teams to run Leyland as a group of "profit centers." He had better hurry...