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General Motors has won a significant decision in the case of the controversial Corvairs. Some 85 suits have been brought against G.M. by victims-and dependents of victims-injured in accidents involving Corvairs built in the 1960-63 model years. Almost all claim that the car's rear axle (since redesigned) gave the Corvair an inherent instability and a tendency to oversteer, resulting sometimes in fatal accidents. G.M. won the first suit last month by convincing a California jury that a fatal accident involving a 1960 Corvair was caused by driver inexperience; but the jury's decision...
...over, lending underwear new snap, crackle and also pop. There is a panty brief with a printed-on image of an oversized zipper that never expected to or could get zipped, another with an American-flag motif. A third has a pair of eyes that wink from the rear, shed a tear in the front−virtually demanding comment from hasty psychoanalysts. Made by Treo to sell at $6 and $7, 150,000 of the briefs and panty girdles have already been ordered by department stores...
...confronts a new legal threat called "strict liability" - the fast-developing doctrine that a manufac turer may be held liable for consumer injuries without being proved guilty of negligence in the manufacturing proc ess (TIME, Aug. 6). Strict liability lurks behind hundreds of pending suits that claim that the rear axle of G.M.'s 1960-1963 Corvairs caused oversteering and sometimes fatal accidents. But last week G.M. won the first of those suits - and in California, where the doctrine of strict liability is well established. In San Jose, G.M. successfully de fended itself against Doreen Collins, 39, a divorcee...
...system that enables the driver to set his car to a given speed and cruise without touching the accelerator), more powerful engines, longer bodies, less chrome. One of the major changes will occur in Ford's Falcon, which has borrowed liberally from the successful Mustang, with a short rear deck and a long hood; like most other Ford models, the Falcon has also adopted the hop-up, or gently swelling rear-fender curve, pioneered by General Motors...
Barricaded in her home at 17 Hefferan St. is Mrs. Mary Casey, 48, a widow, who says she has been paying rent to her mother, Mrs. Eunice Hollum, 70, also a widow, at 152 North Harvard St. Mrs. Casey has boarded up the front and rear doors of her home and is being supplied with food by friends who pass it through the windows...