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...demise of Studebaker as a U.S. automaker, but the two cases have few similarities. With efficient plants, strong dealers, and no long-term debts, AMC is by no means another Studebaker. Despite difficulties, its sales hit $551,531,239 in the fiscal half, and are headed toward the second-best business year ever. But in the most critical measure of an automaker's performance-the share of the market-AMC has slipped from 6.4% of all U.S. auto sales in 1960 to 4.5% last month...
Princeton, with Svastich, Frank Satterthwaite, Toby Symington, and John Frazier, probably poses the biggest threat to the Crimson's supremacy, but an Army team sparked by the brothers Oehrlein--Al and Richie--might beat out the Tigers for second. Tom Poor is probably the tournament's second-best player, but Amherst has little talent backing...
...Italian influence more spectacular than in commerce and industry. In the first six months of the year, Argentina reduced its imports from the U.S., West Germany, France and Britain by 30% to 45% while increasing its imports from Italy by 70%. Italy has become Argentina's second-best customer (after Britain), and Argentina, in turn, is Italy's second-best (after...
...other U.S. cities of similar size can boast: two good dailies. Although the News may never overtake the Herald, Editor Baggs can at least stake claim to a record that other second-running papers might well envy. By almost any measure, Baggs's Miami News is the best second-best newspaper...
WORKING in a plain-shoe office that does not even boast air conditioning, George Homer Gribbin, 55. presides over Young & Rubicam (1961 billings: $260 million), the nation's third biggest agency. "We're always described as the second-best agency, right after the agency that's making the pitch for itself," says Gribbin, grinning behind his Mephistophelian eyebrows. Prime reason is that, unlike some of his competitors, Gribbin encourages his copywriters to exercise their individual style, on the theory that there are no hard-and-fast rules for producing effective advertising. Some of the results: those...