Word: romneys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Finally the book will note that recent leadership changes have not affected the party's direction significantly. Possibly a discussion of Nixon, Romney, and Scranton as prospective Presidential nominees for '63 will be included...
...Femme Fatale. That way, Abernethy is convinced, is to change the company's image. American has set out to strip the Rambler of the stodgy, maiden-aunt, economy image nurtured during George Romney's reign, and to surround it with the sporty accouterments and glamour that sell autos. Restyled Ramblers have already lost their boxy lines and blossomed forth in hard-tops and convertibles, with bucket seats, floor-mounted gearshifts and even a big, 8-cylinder engine that is definitely not economical. The fastback Marlin, introduced last March, is as sporty a car as Detroit manufactures today...
Speaking of the Great Society's programs, Romney said: "They have merit only as they can help certain individuals who lack education, skills and training for productive employment. But they do not begin to solve the problems of automation and hard-core unemployment. They do nothing to put the people, as consumers, back in control of our economy. And they have the fatal defect of crippling the private, voluntary efforts which are essential to a full realization of their lofty goals...
Back in Detroit, Romney opened the Tigers' first home game of the season, not in the usual fashion of lobbing a ball from a box seat, but by doffing his suit coat, donning a fielder's glove and going out onto the mound, where he fired off two fast balls to Detroit's Mayor Jerome Cavanagh. Then he retired to the stands to watch Detroit defeat the Kansas City Athletics...
...week's end Romney flew off to Europe with 75 businessmen on an eight-day, six-country swing to drum up international trade for Michigan. As a top possibility for the G.O.P.'s presidential nomination in 1968, he was asked the usual what's-your-political-future question by newsmen in Amsterdam. Replied Romney: "I have not yet decided whether to run for Governor or for the U.S. Senate...