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...vent grille that sometimes leaked (corrected), and it has run up the best record for gas consumption (average: 25 miles per gallon in city driving). Said a Detroit Falcon owner: "I'm driving the Falcon all the time; I've let my wife take the Thunderbird." Chrysler's Valiant also has had only minor troubles, quickly corrected, gets less mileage than the Falcon because it is a heavier and more powerful...
...June. Even the steel industry's biggest and hardest-hit customer, the auto industry, began to thaw. General Motors, which had shut down its plants, began to call workers back to resume making parts. Ford put its operation on five days, and scheduled overtime on the Falcon, Thunderbird and Lincoln. (But Chrysler laid off more workers, stopped production of its Valiant.) With American Motors and Studebaker-Packard also operating five days, the industry's output for the week was 67,100 cars, up from 64,233 the week before. In midweek the year's production to date...
Died. John Clinton Peurifoy, 19, last surviving son of handsome, fast-driving Diplomat John E. Peurifoy, who, along with his younger son, was killed (1955) at the wheel of a Thunderbird in Thailand; in Tulsa, Okla. When his father was Ambassador to Greece, young John, a wheelchair spastic, was told by Queen Frederika: "In school the best pupil is always given the hardest problems to solve. God gave you the hardest problem of all, so you must be his favorite pupil...
...stroke for 30 minutes, then turns to a little weight lifting and to pedaling on his stationary bicycle before breakfast. After that, it is work, work, work on some current real estate deal that invariably produces money, money, money. He has two cars at his disposal (a 1959 white Thunderbird, a Continental Mark III), and in the evenings he sometimes watches movies on the CinemaScope screen in his basement...
...gracefully steps aside to allow her to come to her decision, but Tab leans forward again-in Central Park, Staten Island and Grand Central Station-and displays those bald eyeballs. Meekly Sophia once more obeys the scriptwriter. Tab takes possession, like a tot getting behind the wheel of a Thunderbird...