Word: townsend
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avis has a great potential for expansion abroad," said I.T. & T. Chairman and President Harold S. Geneen, "where I.T. &T. has operations and marketing experience." There was some logic in that, but it had obviously at first escaped Avis Chairman Robert C. Townsend, who coined the "We Try Harder" slogan that has helped make No. 2 Avis a much stronger competitor for first-place Hertz. Said he: "At first, I wondered how a small company could be acquired by a large one without losing some of its spark. But now I'm enthusiastic. We'll try even harder...
...tune of about 700,000 cars-about just how good the year will be. Cautious but optimistic, General Motors Chairman Frederic Donner predicted that 1965 sales "could well exceed the long-term trend estimate of 7,800,000 cars and approximate the levels reached in 1964." Chrysler President Lynn Townsend said flatly that "the industry is now in the process of putting two 8,000,000-car years back to back," estimated that 8,100,000 cars will be sold in 1965. American Motors President Roy Abernethy agreed that 1965 sales will surpass 1964's, predicted that the industry...
...varied inversely with the number of dancers on stage. In Leonard Bernstein's First Glimpse, a horde of girls stood in place going through fairly standard motions: swinging hips, snapping fingers, waving arms. In a "pas de trois" danced to Richard Rogers' My Favorite Things, only Carol Schectman. Linda Townsend and Walsh occupied the stage, and theirs was the most relaxed and technically the best dance performance of the evening. Miss Schectman especially moved with great ease and grace...
...spent more on its new cars than ever before: $525 million by Ford, $300 million by Chrysler, about $70 million for American Motors, and probably more than all of them put together by General Motors. "No similar industry wide model change in the past," says Chrysler President Lynn Townsend, "has ever failed to bring a strong new stimulus to automobile sales...
Avis has a lot of miles to go to catch up with Hertz, which has three times as many cars and five times more revenue, but Townsend says his aim is not to become No. 1-he just wants Avis to be the fastest growing with the highest profit margin. In view of the fact that 90 million out of 94 million U.S. drivers have never rented a car, he feels that there is plenty of room for everyone to grow, sees no reason why the number of-U.S. cars available for rental, now 105,000 a year, should...