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...pleaded: "Let us not destroy the link language. It is our window to the world." Under the 1963 act, Parliament is to review the language question again in 1975. But at his first formal press conference last week, Premier Shastri confirmed his support for Hindi, and as for bureaucratic snafus, he said simply, "There will have to be some waste of time." With that, Shastri flew off to Bombay to participate in the dedication of India's first factory for the manufacture of plutonium-for which there is no Hindi word...
...move quickly with all the industry's new trends, and Studebaker's ancient plant there was hopelessly inefficient. The company's dealer organization was too small, haphazard and ineffectual. Efforts to revitalize the company were snarled by lack of cash and a series of incredible production snafus. In the past five years, Studebaker has lost at least $40 million in automaking; this year, despite the introduction of pleasantly restyled 1964 models, sales for the first eleven months fell to 59,742 cars. Last month Studebaker's directors fired President Sherwood Egbert, who insisted on staying...
Egbert also has to live down some mishaps from the '63 model year. Foremost among them was the longnose, short-tail Avanti sports car, which Egbert intended as his answer to the Thunderbird. An incredible series of production snafus involving its Fiberglas body delayed the Avanti's debut by six months; Egbert had confidently predicted 10,000 sales of the '63 Avantis-at about $5,000 each-but only 1,743 have moved. Similarly hurt was the sales potential of another Egbert innovation, the Wagonaire station wagon with a sliding roof; at the last minute, Studebaker discovered...
Bothered by Bottlenecks. Some of Studebaker's troubles stem from the fact that the basic design of its Lark has not changed in four years while consumer tastes in cars have. But even more crippling has been a series of production snafus...
...added up to one of the biggest U.S. news snafus in years, triggered by a U.S. Supreme Court order so terse that the entire Washington press corps misunderstood it. "The appeal is dismissed," the Justices said, as they refused to accept an appeal of a case in which a lower court had held South Carolina's bus segregation law unconstitutional. Then the Supreme Court cryptically cited an obscure, 27-year-old Nebraska civil case, Slaker v. O'Connor, that touched off the bulletins. Actually, the only relationship between Slaker v. O'Connor and the case at hand...