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...seat among Detroit's Big Three, has skidded from 18% of the market in 1957 to 9.6% this year. At the rate it is now selling, it has a 91-day backlog. All of its vaunted "European"' styling has not stalled the continued decline of Plymouth, Dodge, Valiant and Lancer. Chrysler has pinned much of its hopes for a future comeback on its new chief stylist, Elwood Engel, 45, who was netted last fall in a raid on Ford, where he was a disciple of flamboyant George Walker and had much to do with the elegantly clean...
Nonetheless, argues Macleod, "it is not at Munich but at the locust years, 1934 and 1935, that the finger of criticism should be pointed." For despite Chamberlain's "most valiant" championship of rearmament in the mid-'30's, so little was done that by September 1938. Britain was almost completely defenseless against air attack, had only a token quantity of modern antiaircraft guns and one operational Spitfire squadron. "After Munich," says Iain Macleod, "the last strong hopes of peace were not allowed to hold back our accelerating preparations against...
...crash-landed a battle-damaged B24. His accumulated injuries caused his eventual retirement from the Air Force. In 1955, Harvey and four companions were rescued by helicopter after his yacht, Torbatross, struck the submerged wreck of the U.S. battleship Texas in Chesapeake Bay. Three years later, his powerboat, Valiant, went down in the Gulf of Mexico, and once more Harvey escaped with his life. The sinking of the Bluebelle, insisted friends, was all that Harvey could stand...
...wreck is way off course. You have to work at it to find her." Yet a federal court awarded Harvey $14,258 damages for the loss of Torbatross. And last week, after his return from the Bluebelle tragedy, Harvey confided to friends in Miami that he had scuttled Valiant for the insurance...
November 11 is a day to reckon with. Armistices come and go, but Veterans, proud and valiant men that they are, are made of sterner stuff. The Nation and the State will honor them tomorrow with a holiday; the University will hold no classes; and the CRIMSON will publish a Saturday edition...