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...London's motor show opened last week, the crowds clustered around a car that the Times of London called "the undisputed star of the show." It was not so radical looking-except for the name it bore. The Rover 2000 is a daring gamble by one of Britain's oldest and most conservative automakers...
THREE years ago, when Correspondent Marshall Berges was packing up to leave his assignment as head of the Detroit Bureau to take charge in Los Angeles, he dropped around to see Robert S. McNamara, then president of the Ford Motor Co. Berges felt that McNamara, as a former Californian, might well provide some pretty good guidance. One of the questions he asked was, "Who are the brightest men in California?" McNamara's reply was instantaneous: "Way up at the top of your list you'd better put Tex Thornton." Berges was not in California long before he shared...
Dream Project. Hearing that Ford Motor Co. was struggling with the task of resurrecting itself into a modern corporation, Thornton fired off a cocky telegram to Henry Ford II, offering to use the ten's ability to bring the sprawling, money-losing company under control. Ford checked with Lovett, invited Thornton to Detroit. There Thornton negotiated salaries ranging from $8,000 a year for the least experienced of the group up to $16,000 for himself. It was quite a deal for Ford; in one package, it got two future presidents and four divisional bosses...
...Several miles away, on the worn-out coalfield fringe of Birmingham, two young Negro brothers, James and Virgil Ware, were riding a bicycle. Virgil, 13, was sitting on the handle bars. A motor scooter with two 16-year-old white boys aboard approached from the opposite direction. James Ware, 16, told what happened then: "This boy on the front of the bike turns and says something to the boy behind him, and the other reaches in his pocket and he says Pow! Pow! with a gun twice. Virgil fell and I said, get up Virgil, and he said...
...well over 1.5% of the expected '64 market. The Studebakers that Egbert showed off at Utah's Bonneville Salt Flats last week are handsomely restyled-the first major redesigning that he has been able to carry out since 1961, when he left the presidency of an outboard motor company and accepted the challenge to revive Studebaker. Six inches longer and somewhat sleeker, the cars have abandoned the boxy look of the earlier Lark line. Even the Lark name is being downplayed in favor of model names such as Challenger, Cruiser and Daytona. But the Studebakers will face fierce...