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...total car sales: 7,000,000 next year v. the expected 6,400,000 total for 1959. Chrysler set no prices on its full-sized models, which retained the low, long look, with tail fins still the distinguishing feature. For its V-8 engines, Chrysler has developed a new ram induction system which provides enough extra boost for passing at speeds from 35 to 75 m.p.h. that the use of "kickdown," or passing gears, is unnecessary. For the new Dodge Dart and Plymouth, Chrysler has developed a new six-cylinder engine which, as in the Valiant, will be mounted...
...philosophy you cannot avoid it. We are going to question the student's dearest beliefs," Demos states. "I don't try to protect the freshmen, but I don't attempt to ram the ideas into them. I try to examine also the assumptions on which science is built. Our job is to examine everything...
...enough to merge with Thiokol Chemical Corp. last year, and Rockefeller got Thiokol stock that is now worth $4,200,000. In 1950, Rockefeller put $202,000 into low-flying Marquardt Aircraft Co., a pioneer in ramjet propulsion; his interest zoomed to $5,200,000 after Marquardt started making ram-jets for the Bomarc missile. But the fastest rise of all was in Itek. Two years ago Rockefeller, a camera bug, invested $279,000 in Itek Corp., which had plans for computer-like photo machines to handle information. He got some Itek shares as low as $2. They soared...
Substituting his judicial robes for a wrap-around of grandchildren, U.S. Supreme Court Justice Thomas Campbell Clark, 59, took his uneasy ease in a swimming pool in Dallas, where he was vacationing. Two of the kids, Tom, 5, and Ronda. 7, are children of William Ram sey Clark; the other nipper, eye-gouging Gail, 4, is the daughter of Justice Clark's daughter Mildred ("Mimi") Gronlund...
...seats, they would not dent the Democrats' gerrymandered Assembly majority (410 to 170), but a good Republican showing might be an omen for 1961 general elections. Apparently Menderes thought so too: last week, after a bitter parliamentary debate, the Democrats used their safe majority to ram through the Assembly a measure postponing all byelections for a year...