Word: corvair
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...most serious charge, DeLorean contends that GM knew about the safety problems of the Chevrolet Corvair before production began and failed to remedy them. Claims DeLorean: "Charlie Chayne, vice president of engineering, along with his staff, took a very strong stand against the Corvair as an unsafe car long before it went on sale...
...Though not always a guarantee of success: the ill-fated Corvair, which a then little-known lawyer named Ralph Nader said was unsafe, also won the magazine's accolade...
...private plane in a crash near Kalamazoo, Mich. An engineer who rose through the ranks to become president in 1967, Cole had the rare savvy and persistence to conceive an idea, guide it through the corporate mazes and oversee its embodiment in steel. He helped design the controversial Corvair, sold GM on the merits of the pollution-cutting catalytic converter and the recently abandoned rotary engine, and supported development of the air-bag safety system. His motto at the corporation was "Kick the hell out of the status quo." Cole retired from GM in 1974 and had taken over Checker...
...Nader jump into Washington Lawyer Simon Lazarus' Corvair after a party, then warn the attorney not to mention that Lazarus had been stopped by a cop for exceeding the speed limit because Nader feared the headline: RALPH NADER CAUGHT SPEEDING IN CORVAIR? Undoubtedly...
...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...