Word: successful
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...Poor Inheritance. Chrysler's road to success was paved with gradually improving styling and quality in the company's 1962, '63 and '64 models. This year, for the first time since he was appointed in 1961, Chrysler President Lynn Townsend has a car that he can call completely his own; he has finally been able to rid the entire Chrysler line of the last traces of the garish fins and ornamentation that he inherited from L. L. ("Tex") Colbert. Chrysler's cars are also being pushed by a revitalized dealer organization, which increased from...
...Success has brought problems too. Although Chrysler last year paid only $1 a share in dividends on its earnings of $5.46 a share-plowing the balance back into new plants and equipment-the cost of expansion and new model introduction reduced its net working capital from $557 million to $385 million. Townsend has instituted a new company-wide cost-cutting program, but he realizes that economy alone will not suffice. In April Chrysler will float a new stock issue of 5,611,000 shares that should bring in another $308 million to help pay the price of success...
Leonov's short "stroll" into personal orbit was one of the most remarkable achievements of the remarkable age of space. The Soviet success, said Kurt Debus, German-born director of the John F. Kennedy Space Center, "points to sophistication in manufacturing, computers, metallurgy, ballistics, space medicine and the pure sciences. This effort proved in one stroke their standing in all these fields...
...that the U.S. puts up for communications, observing the weather, studying the sun, photographing the moon and probing the planets. But, as yet, the U.S. has nothing to match their powerful, reliable boosters and their spacious, multi-manned satellites. The whole world was understandably impressed by the latest Soviet success...
...flights, they seem to have stayed on board, as U.S. astronauts do, while the ships landed beneath bigger and better parachutes. Retrorockets have also been used to check a ship's speed as it nears the ground. The three-man spaceship Voskhod I used this method with great success. Its designers were so sure that the soft landing would work that they gave the crew no parachutes or protective clothing...