Word: valiant
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Something approaching a smile barely managed to crease John Yovicsin's face last night as he herded his valiant but bandaged band of football players into Dillon Field House after practice...
Died. General Dusan Simovic, 80, iron-willed Yugoslav patriot who led a valiant 1941 coup d'etat that overturned the pro-Nazi regency of Prince Paul for 17 brief days just before Hitler invaded, later headed Yugoslavia's wartime exiled government in London; in seclusion in Belgrade...
...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 than in '62 (and looks more like Rambler's successful American); and Dodge's compact LANCER, instead of being a look-alike to the Valiant, is more mas sive. In a confusing name switch, the Lancer has been renamed DART, and last year's Dart...
...behind, with production of its standard-sized Galaxie barely topping 400,000. (Counting all models, Ford has produced 842,000 cars since January, v. 1,300,000 for Chevy.) At the bottom of the heap among the Big Three is Chrysler, whose production of four low-priced lines (Plymouth, Valiant, Dodge Dart and Lancer) adds up to only 288,000 cars so far in 1962-just ahead of the 282,000 Ramblers produced by American Motors. But despite its reduced share of the auto market, Chrysler still had cause for rejoicing last week. Thanks largely to lower costs achieved...
Attempting the feat here is Richard Basehart, whose work has been mainly in the cinema. His is an honest, valiant effort; and much of Richard comes through, though a complete Richard eludes him. At the opening performance, he often spoke too softly, but I trust he has better guaged the acoustics of the theater by now. (And Fletcher might give thought to decreasing the number of lines spoken by others with back to the audience...