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...Alfred P. Sloan...
Ever since 1928, when General Motors first introduced yearly style changes, Sloan's Law has been reaffirmed at every annual new model preview. But this year, the tradition of a new style every autumn is being ignored by both the biggest and the smallest of Detroit's automakers-G.M. and American Motors. They are postponing cosmetics to concentrate on Government demands for safety and engineering improvements, many of which are only in the design stage. Shock-absorbing bumpers, for example, will be required by law in 1973; passenger safety restraints that will work automatically in a collision...
Rare Test. By contrast, Ford and Chrysler, who must meet the same Government requirements, decided that they had to have styling changes this year as well. The fate of the new models in the showrooms will thus provide a rare test of Sloan's Law. Chrysler Corp. is promoting style changes in such full-sized models as the Plymouth Fury, Dodge Polara and Monaco, and Chrysler Newport, New Yorker and Imperial. Newly sculpted body and roof lines, and new front and rear styling will be the big difference. Says Elwood P. Engel, Chrysler's vice president of styling...
...await with him the inevitable emergence-like grass through the cracks in the side-walk-of a new Consciousness of love, blue jeans and rock music, a Consciousness III. Says the Times: "Youth culture has gotten its very own Norman Vincent Peale." They were not referring to William Sloan Coffin, Yale's famous Radical Chaplain...
Among those present at the press conference were Yale Chaplain William Sloan Coffin and historians Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr. '38, and Henry Steele Commager Jr., '54. Commager called McGovern "intellectually one of the ablest figures in American politics. He has never wavered or wobbled...