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Spokesman for Campaign GM have criticized Bennett, particularly after he was recently designated the sole management nominee for a seat on the Board of Directors of the Ford Motor Corporation...
George F. Bennett '33, Treasurer of Harvard College, is the only management nominee for a seat on the Board of Directors of the Ford Motor Corporation...
...would Hatano spend the money? He commissioned an army of city planners, architects, sociologists and economists to draw up a grandiose scheme. Dubbed "Hatano's Vision," it calls for underground channels to accommodate subways, motor vehicles and sewage, plus a series of earthquake-resistant high-rise housing developments linked to commercial centers by superhighways. All would be interlaced with green belts and recreation areas. Hatano's Vision, says Minobe, is an "illusion" that would convert Tokyo into "an inhuman mass of steel and concrete...
Right up until race time last week at California's new $25.5 million Ontario Motor Speedway, the drivers were doing their rhetorical best to build the gate for the "dream race." The U.S.'s George Follmer, extolling the superior acceleration of the Formula A's 5-liter engine, hinted of "fantastic refinements." Britain's Graham Hill, noting the agility and quickness of the Formula One with its 3-liter motor, dismissed the U.S. cars as "second rate." Actually, the drivers knew the answer to the burning question all along-and so, after two 100-mile heats...
Other top U.S. drivers suffered different misfortunes. Al Unser, winner of last year's Indianapolis 500, had to drop out when his Lola-Chevrolet developed oil pressure problems. A.J. Foyt drove a McLaren-Chevrolet until the motor quit. Follmer's Lotus-Ford suffered a broken rocker arm. British Driver Derek Bell, for one, regarded the U.S. cars as so much clutter. "It's frustrating," he groused, "for a Formula One driver to wait...