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...Peru, which imposes 300% customs duties on new U.S. cars, the most notable rolling relics are colectivos, taxibuses plying regular routes from Lima's working-class slums to market. Driver Andrés Barreto says he was lucky to have bought his six-cylinder 1929 Packard Diplomat. "I just happened to be in the Tacora junkyard when a fellow drove up in this car. I tell you I got a bargain. That was eleven years ago, and this car makes at least $7.25 a day for me. I carry as many as twelve passengers and bags of potatoes, green...
...hear Dann-who has turned in similar performances at Studebaker-Packard and American Motors-tell it, Chrysler's directors were guilty of "nepotism, favoritism, payola, reckless disregard for the rights of shareholders, bribery, misconduct, perpetuation of themselves in office, creating a Pearl Harbor that would lead Chrysler to the same fate as Packard...
...Heller, 55 (TIME Cover, July 27). After twelve years as director of the Federal Government's National Cancer Institute, Rod Heller will move July 1 to Manhattan as first president of a newly integrated Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center. In effect he succeeds the late great Dr. Cornelius Packard Rhoads (TIME, Aug. 24), but with unified-command responsibility: Dr. Rhoads's research job, as director of Sloan-Kettering Institute, has already been filled by Dr. Frank L. Horsfall...
...Status Seekers, Packard...
...school to sweep out the First National Bank of Artesia and returning after school to work as a teller. The opportunity to travel came in the summer when an elderly couple, friends of her family, asked her to drive them to New York in their big Packard in exchange for a return-trip ticket on the bus. Pat eagerly accepted...