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With that request of Winston Spencer Churchill, taken from a wartime speech. ABC this week began a television series worthy of its subject and his words. Called Winston Churchill-The Valiant Years, its 26 half-hour segments will draw material from all six volumes of Church ill's World War II memoirs, using film clips made on both sides of battle to provide-if all episodes prove as excellent as the first-a graphic and unforgettable text in modern history...
...Hammarskjold's defiance of the leader of the "East Side Rocket Gang"-Khrushchev-prompts me to nominate the valiant Swede...
Autos. For the first time since 1957 Chrysler Corp. managed to make a third-quarter profit due to the sales of the compact Valiant and the Dodge Dart. While only $1.4 million, it compared with a loss of $34.2 million last year. Nine-month earnings were also ahead, $2.84 per share this year v. $2.73 last year. On the other hand, earnings of General Motors, hit by high tooling costs for its new compact cars, dropped 34% in the third quarter from 47^ per share to 30^ on a 5% sales increase. Nine-months earnings also ran behind a year...
...impressive start, with daily new-car sales up 7.5% over last year (to 19,539 cars) in the first ten days of October, for the best ten-day rate since June. American Motors reported "the best reaction in our history" to its 1961 cars; Plymouth and Valiant daily sales were reported 30% ahead of last year in the first ten days, the best since their record 1953; Dodge delivered nearly twice as many Darts as it did last year; Ford sold 12,361 Falcons in the ten days, expects to have a backlog of 12,000 to 15.000 orders...
CHRYSLER FIRED another top executive, Jack W. Minor, 39, director of marketing for Plymouth, DeSoto and Valiant, in conflict-of-interest scandal. Investigation showed that Minor made about $20,000 in commissions on Chrysler Corporation business given to advertising firms in which he had an interest...