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...With Chrysler Corp.'s share of the U.S. auto market once again declining (to 10% in early November), Detroiters were unsurprised when Chief Chrysler Stylist Virgil (Forward Look) Exner, 52, resigned to make room for Elwood Paul Engel, 44, who was netted in a raid on Ford's styling staff. A disciple of flamboyant ex-Ford Stylist George Walker (TIME cover, Nov. 4, 1957), New Jersey-born Designer Engel was largely responsible for the clean, squared-off 1961 Lincoln. Chrysler President Lynn Townsend, who desperately wants the same golden touch for his cars, has ordered Engel to report...
...largest builder, float down to earth on parachutes after the shoot is finished-and they gave Northrop expertise in high-altitude landing systems. The eventual result: the Northrop-built recovery system for the Mercury capsule, including its 63-ft.-wide parachute, which brought Astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom down from space...
...subject long scorned or ignored. Civil defense agencies were swamped with requests for pamphlets and questions about survival. Thousands of U.S. citizens have actually begun digging in. But the nation remains far from the day considered inevitable by one of the most experienced of its civil defense officials : Virgil Couch, 54, industrial specialist of the Office of Civil Defense in Battle Creek, Mich. Says Couch: "Civil defense must be part of the normal way of life. Like smallpox vaccination, we've got to get used to it and build it into the normal fabric of our lives...
Like Noah. Most of the push behind industrial mobilization has been supplied by Virgil Couch. From his cluttered office in Battle Creek (soon to be transferred to Washington. D.C.), Couch has worked for the past ten years to coax big business into the civil defense program. The son of a Purchase. Ky., railroadman. Couch won prizes as a youngster for his wheat crops by carefully sifting the kernels through a fine sieve, so that only the plumpest grains remained. His efforts in industrial civil defense have been equally meticulous. One of his favorite maxims: "You've got to arrive...
...greatest triumph last week, when with infinite precision, the robot-manned Mercury capsule MA4 was boosted into orbit, permitted to circle the earth, then brought down and recovered in good condition. Despite all the excitement stirred up by the short, sub-orbital flights of Astronauts Alan Shepard and Virgil Grissom, last week's achievement was far more significant...