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Beginning Nov. 1, the Mexican assembly plants of foreign auto firms will have to use Mexican cotton to pay for car and truck parts imported from their parent companies. To do business, the companies will have to make deals with a broker to try to sell Mexican cotton abroad. The companies then can import an equivalent value in car parts. Hard hit will be the U.S. Big Three-General Motors, Ford and Chrysler. If they manage to continue importing parts at the current rate (an estimated $60 million a year), the Big Three will have to market...
Troxell told police: "She just flew into a fit of wifely affection." An Ounce of Prevention. In Baytown, Texas, Mrs. Daniel E. Ellis took her husband for a drive while he was recuperating from a heart attack, lost control, bounced down a steep embankment, crashed into a truck and a cement mixer at the bottom, was uninjured but had to return her husband to the hospital for treatment of lacerations, explained: "I was driving to relieve him of any physical strain." Intermezzo. In Los Angeles, Mrs. Mary Feynman won a divorce after testifying that her physicist husband's Congo...
...William C. Newberg, 45, Colbert-trained president of Dodge, to automotive group vice president in charge of all vehicle divisions and the MoPar division (truck and auto parts...
Below the Belt. In Laramie, Wy., Mrs. Ralph Conwell got into the right side of her Chevrolet to wait for her husband, cinched up her new safety belt, tried in vain to reach the brake as the car rolled down the driveway, rammed a truck, jumped the curb, mowed down a lilac bush and crashed into the bedroom of the house next door...
...each of its 88 seats. In mass production the Pioneer will cost about $95,000-just above the trainman's dream of $1,000 per head, vastly lower than the conventional car figure of $3,800. Budd cut weight with simplified hollow-axle rail truck and wide use of plastics for seats, walls, baggage racks, ceilings, washroom appliances. The company estimates that Pioneer's maintenance costs will be less than 60% of the upkeep for a standard 80-passenger, 65-ton car. One reason: it can be washed inside and out with a fire hose. Budd...