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Auto executives profess to see some hope in the latest sales figures. The 25% drop in total volume in the first ten days of February, they note, was no worse than the decline in January, so at least the sales slump is no longer getting deeper with every report. That seems a rather frail reed on which to base any optimism, and auto dealers put little trust in it. At the National Automobile Dealers Association convention in Las Vegas two weeks ago, John S. Hinckley, an Ogden, Utah, Dodge dealer and NADA president, assailed contradictory statements by Government leaders...
...third option exists, I believe. Fine revolutionary concepts did appear in our country two hundred years ago, even in the mouths of slaveholders. The American people still profess to have these concepts as ultimate goals. We could try to persuade the people to apply them. William Gotschall...
Even the nonchalant Teamsters raised an eyebrow when they received an audit from America on the Move in which there was no mention of diverting funds to the Israeli film. Otherwise, the Teamsters profess to be perfectly happy with the thwarted project. Says Dusty Miller: "We paid them for public relations work, and we got a lot of good publicity...
...Pont officials profess to be undisturbed by the success of their castoff, claiming they did well to dump an expensive failure. Of course, they might feel otherwise if the Corfam shoe were still on their foot...
Members of ERG and CUE also profess interest in Harvard's undergraduate education. The Educational Resources Group is an obscure body of students who are elected in each House and in the Yard and who choose the student participants for the Committee on Undergraduate Education...