Word: corvair
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...down on a farm near Esbon, Kans., the geographical center of the country, which he figures to be about 20 ballooning days from the New Jersey coast. Aeronaut Forbes is not drifting East on a wing and a prayer, however. His entourage includes 16 people, a helicopter, a Corvair and a mobile home...
...Priscilla Ann Beaulieu, decided to break the silence that surrounded her strangely sequestered marriage with the multimillionaire singer. For four years of their seven-year courtship, Priscilla lived with Elvis' father and stepmother in Memphis, apparently being groomed for marriage. Elvis bought cars for her -"A little red Corvair, then a Chevrolet, a Toronado, an Eldorado and then the Mercedes"-and chauffeured her in a Lincoln Continental with its own bar (soft drinks only). But marriage was never mentioned, or so Priscilla says in the August Ladies' Home Journal...
...from within the ranks, a company can head off future Government investigations, damaging publicity or financial disaster from a product recall. General Motors, for example, could have saved millions of dollars if it had paid attention to the adverse reports of G.M. proving-grounds employees about its trouble-plagued Corvair. Says James Hillier, an RCA executive vice president for research and engineering: "Every manager knows that the direct cost of repairing a defect after a product is sold tends to be anywhere from 20 to 50 times greater than the cost of repairing it in the factory. The additional...
...severed. I am an intelligent adult male who is capable of shopping for good products without the help of a breathing-down-the-neck Nader. I have driven for 40 years without an accident, and one of the most enjoyable cars I ever owned was a Corvair. I don't eat foods that are full of sugar because I don't like them. But I have started using everything Ralph Nader deplores as my own personal form of protest...
...next slide shows an electric possibility. This is one we made in this instance in a Corvair and we made it into an electro-vair by putting in a bunch of silver zinc batteries. The engineering requirements was that it be able to operate in terms of performance as well as the gasoline powered...