Word: modell
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Whether describing his Administration's domestic programs or its foreign commitments, the President offered no reason for retrenchment or retreat. On the contrary, his proposals for the coming year envision a continuing if judicious expansion of past and present canons: further development of the model-cities program, extension of Medicare, strengthening of the Head Start program, new teeth in consumer protection, more national beautification, improved partnership between federal and local governments...
...ailing American Motors Corp., Model Year 1967 was bound to be a year of change-if not in the company's sad sales record, then in its Detroit executive suite. Having spent $60 million on restyling, beleaguered President Roy Abernethy, 60, all but abandoned the head office for the hustings to drum up dealer interest in the new models. In Detroit, A.M.C. Chairman and No. 1 Stockholder Robert B. Evans, 60, settled back to watch the progress on his own pledge to "turn this company around...
...with a worrisome 360,000 unsold cars. So severe is the slump that mighty Volkswagen, fourth largest automaker in the world (after the U.S. Big Three), is learning to think small again. Off Volkswagen's assembly lines at Wolfsburg last week rolled the first of its new Model 1200 sedans, which VW executives call the Wirtschaftskrise Käfer-the "economic crisis beetle...
...sedan, G.M.'s and Ford's German subsidiaries were challenging the beetle at its own game. Sales of G.M.'s small, $1,360 Opel Kadett soared 28% last year, after a 6% drop in 1965. Ford last September successfully reintroduced its $1,322 Taunus 15M, a model it had dropped in 1959. When his 1200 gets into full production, Volkswagen's Nordhoff plans to skip the rich U.S. market, which accounts for 25% of VW's sales, export it only to other countries "where the money does not roll as freely as before...
Died. Ormond E. Hunt, 83, auto engineer, who in 1923 designed the first General Motors Chevrolet to compete successfully with Ford's Model T, incorporating such features as automatic windshield wipers, an electric horn and a longer, more stylish body, was duly awarded a vice-presidency by Alfred P. Sloan Jr., and continued to serve G.M. as a company director and technical troubleshooter, most notably during World War II, when he played a major role in converting auto production lines to tanks, trucks and planes; of cancer; in Henry Ford Hospital, Detroit...