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Under its aggressive young president, Lynn Townsend, 44, resurgent Chrysler Corp. is not only trying to catch up with Ford and General Motors in the U.S. but also to match their overseas holdings. Chrysler has 16 plants overseas, and earlier this year acquired control of Simca, France's fourth largest automaker. Last week Townsend outmaneuvered both Ford and General Motors to become the first U.S. automaker to win a foothold in Spain...
...Guillermo." The man behind it all, the institute's founder-director, is William Cameron Townsend, 67, who has lived with languages and Indians nearly all his life. A persuasive man of infinite patience, Townsend learned his first Indian dialect in 1917 while selling Bibles in Guatemala. In 1935, at the invitation of the Mexican government, he launched the institute's first research and teaching mission. As more governments sought help, Townsend pioneered his own techniques of training and teaching, and dispatched teams to country after country...
...annual budget of $3,000,000 provided by contributors in the U.S. and Latin America. Institute presses in Mexico work overtime printing dictionaries, Bibles and textbooks in 80 Indian languages; some steps in translation are now handled by electronic computers at the National University of Mexico. In Peru, where Townsend has been working since 1945, institute teams stationed near the headwaters of the Amazon keep in touch by radio and a fleet of planes. Yet it is only the beginning. "This is the most virgin field of science I know," Townsend says. "Of over 3,000 languages in the world...
...records were like a pair of dominoes toppling at the head of the line. Next day, U.S. Freestylers Steve Clark, Richard McDonough, Gary II-man and Edward Townsend surged through the 400-meter relay to set a new world mark of 3:36.1. Carl Robie, an 18-year-old University of Michigan freshman, seemed all arms and shoulders as he powered his way to a 2:08.2 world butterfly record over 200 meters. By the time the U.S. 800-meter freestyle relay team of Schollander, McDonough, Townsend and Saari crouched and sprang from the starting platform on the final...
Chrysler last week became the first automaker to show off its 1964 models, and President Lynn A. Townsend described them as "the tried and true." That was a good description of what Detroit will offer the public this fall. Riding the crest of what seems likely to be the best auto year in history, the automakers have prudently left their successful 1963 models largely unchanged, relying on styling and mechanical refinements to provide a difference to sell. Even refinements can be expensive; Chrysler's changes will cost the company about $125 million...