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Ironically, AMC's present troubles are rooted in the philosophy of the man who rescued the company from the junk heap in the mid-1950s: George Romney. Romney steered AMC to prosperity by bringing out the compact Gambler and crusading against Detroit's "gas-guzzling dinosaurs." Believing that compacts would corner 50% of the U.S. auto market, he concentrated his company's efforts exclusively in the compact field. Though Romney is now Governor of Michigan, AMC is still selling Romney-selected compacts because of the two-year lead time needed to produce new models. Meanwhile, the auto...
...convertible. Abernethy has also given the Classic a face-lift and tooled up for a fastback sports car that will probably be called either the Marlin or Sceptre. The handsome American compact will continue almost unchanged. Abernethy has no intention of abandoning the image of making "sensible cars" that Romney created for the company, but, being a sensible type himself, he wants to have models in the bigger class where affluent Americans are now spending the bulk of their auto dollars...
First, in a blistering attack on Romney, veteran G.O.P. State Senator Clyde Geerlings publicly resigned from the Republican Party. Geerlings, chairman of the senate tax committee, accused Romney of supporting the biggest budget in state history ($633 million), and "getting it by twisting the arms of Republican legislators." Romney, he raged, had "kicked farmers in the teeth," "thrown small business into a tailspin," and had taken credit for measures passed by the legislature. "I am tired of the front office taking credit for going from payless paydays to a $60 million surplus. The payless payday, as everybody knows...
Second, former State Senator George Higgins, another Old Guard Republican, announced that he will run against Romney in this year's G.O.P. gubernatorial primary because "the man who sits in the executive office at Lansing and now calls himself a Republican is an impostor. He used the Republican Party to get himself elected and has abused the Republican Party ever since." Legislators, he said, "know that when I say something, they can depend on it. And that's one of the problems up there in Lansing-they can't depend on anything Romney says...
Third, while Romney was preparing to submit a new U.S. congressional district reapportionment plan that would keep intact the present split of eleven Republicans and eight Democrats, his Democratic Lieut. Governor T. John Lesinski sandbagged him. Lesinski came up with a plan of his own-which would probably give Democrats at least one additional seat in Congress-and slipped the scheme through the state senate with the cooperation of ten conservative Republicans who had fallen out with Romney. This, complained Senate Majority Leader Stanley Thayer, a Romney loyalist, was a "secret diabolical move." Fuming with anger, Romney accused the dissident...