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Price Scare. The industry is understandably jubilant. At a time of year when they are often backing down, automen are happily revising earlier forecasts upward. Chrysler President Virgil Boyd, in one of the year's more conservative estimates, predicts that 9.3 million car sales are pretty much a certainty. That might very well push 1968 over 1965, when the total sales, including 575,000 imports, added up to a record 9,313,912 cars...
...VIRGIL THOMSON: Four Saints in Three Acts (RCA Victor LM 2756). The Thomson-Gertrude Stein masterpiece of sophistication and naivete, recorded under the composer's direction...
...being as rewarding as the first. In this mood, automakers are unloading heavy summer inventories on their dealers-some 2,920,000 cars against 2,270,000 last year. Nor do most automakers expect a setback when the 10% surtax nips at buyers' paychecks. Says Chrysler President Virgil Boyd: "The public has been oriented to the inevitability of a tax increase for a year...
Meanwhile, Chrysler President Virgil Boyd, a dealer before he got into the manufacturing end of the business, has been busy increasing Chrysler dealerships. They have risen from 5,580 to 6,409 since 1962, and Boyd has respotted many of the dealerships in better selling locations. Last week Chrysler dealers were moving new cars at the rate...
Most schools seem to be fearing the worst. Stanford Graduate Division Dean Virgil Whitaker foresees a "potential catastrophic disruption" that could take 75% of the students now in their first year of graduate studies. Dartmouth's School of Business Administration figures that its total enrollment will drop at least 50%; graduate schools at Cornell and the University of Wisconsin peg the loss at about one-third; those at Yale, Berkeley and the University of Massachusetts place it at 25%. Nearly all assume that most of their new students will be either wom en, veterans, foreigners, men with physical ailments...