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...with the magic voice and manner is neither preacher, politician nor gunslinger-though he needs to be a good deal of each in his business. He is James Martin Moran. 42. the ebullient, aggressive and imaginative owner and president of Chicago's Courtesy Motor Sales Inc. To Chicagoans he is known simply as "Jim Moran. the Courtesy Man." Through hard work, hard sell and his TV pitches on behalf of his autos. Jim Moran has built his firm into the nation's biggest auto dealer in business at the same stand and the world's largest Ford...
...these cars will descend on a market in which there is such a traffic jam of nameplates and models that many a customer is already confused enough. The customer now has 17 standard-sized cars to pick from, most of them with such a welter of models, motors, options and accessories that it is possible to buy a Chevrolet in more than 100,000 different combinations. And compacts are available in 89 models produced under eleven nameplates. Only the small foreign car has not been burgeoning; since the U.S. compacts were introduced, sales of foreign cars have taken a sharp...
...creditors, a group of bank and insurance companies that forced Hughes to let their trustees vote his TWA stock (78%) until some $165 million in loans for new TWA jets are paid. Stockholders elected six new directors to TWA board, including Trustee Ernest R. Breech, former Ford Motor Co. chairman, who is likely to have biggest influence in running company...
...Among the members: Union Presidents George Meany (A.F.L.-C.I.O.), Walter Reuther (Auto Workers), David McDonald (Steel workers), David Dubinsky (Ladies' Garment Workers); Company Chief Executives Thomas Watson Jr. (IBM), Henry Ford II (Ford Motor), J. Spencer Love (Burlington Industries), Joseph Block (Inland Steel); President Clark Kerr of the University of California...
Floating Doughnut. A 14-ft.-diameter, circular fiber-glass motorboat is being offered for sale in Japan by Yamaha Motor Co. Designed for leisurely cruising with the calm sensation of a water lily, or as a roomy fishing boat or diving platform, it is driven by an outboard motor installed through a hole in the center. Price in Japan...