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...This Frenchman, who has so much order in his mind and so little in his acts, this logician who doubts everything, this lackadaisical hard worker, this enthusiast for tail coats and public gardens who goes about in sloppy clothes and strews the grass with litter, in short, this fickle, uncertain, contradictory nation-how could the Teuton sympathize with it, understand it, or trust...
Last week, on Cape Canaveral's Launch Pad No. 12, Mariner II also seemed doomed. The countdown was halted three times to allow technicians to examine malfunctions. When the spacecraft finally rose above its flaming tail and disappeared into the warm darkness, preliminary tracking data from Johannesburg indicated that Mariner might miss Venus by some 600,000 mile's-too large an error to be corrected by its mid-course steering motor...
This lifts the tail slightly to "ride" with the bump. After the rear wheel passes the bump, the fluid returns to the front, cushioning the overall shock...
Gone with the Fins. Chrysler's famous flaring tail fins, which began shrinking last year, have given way almost completely to uncluttered, lightly chromed lines that Detroit likes to call "clean." Chrysler has not hesitated to borrow styling from its rivals and end up looking quite a bit like them. While lead times did not permit Townsend to completely redesign the PLYMOUTH and DODGE, they do look different from the '625, and the main change is a flat roof on each that closely resembles the top deck of Ford's racy Thunderbird. The compact VALIANT is chunkier...
Viewed from the rear, the middle-priced CHRYSLER looks something like an elongated Rolls-Royce, and the higher-priced IMPERIAL (which got only 0.13% of the '62 market) has shucked its showy tail lamps for unobtrusive ones set in the subdued remains of its fins. In a new bid to carve into Volkswagen's small-car mar ket, Chrysler late this year will introduce the rear-engined, French-built Simca MILLE (Chrysler owns 24% of Simca...