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...Chrysler attorney who took over command of the company in 1950. Colbert began a feverish drive to modernize Chrysler's plants, and was responsible for the rakish "Forward Look" that made Chrysler's 1957 cars a runaway success. But in the process, he let the company's quality standards slip scandalously. By 1959, Chrysler sales had slipped from a solid 25% of the U.S. auto market under Walter P. down to 11.3%. From a $120 million profit in 1957, the company staggered into a $34 million loss...
...made one bad slip on the January day he fled Venezuela one jump ahead of the howling mobs. He forgot to take along a suitcase he had packed for the getaway. Beneath the socks, shirts and underwear were bundles of papers-stock certificates, bank-deposit slips, property deeds, and memoranda of commissions squeezed over the years from companies doing business with his government...
Concerned over the swelling tide of seaborne refugees, Hong Kong police have been searching up to 500 junks a day in the teeming waters around the city. But many slip through the cordon. When tragedy strikes, as it did for the 32 hapless victims who drowned off eastern Hong Kong, the trade falls off for a few days. Then the human cargos begin moving once more across the Pearl River estuary. Says Father Luis Ruiz of Macao's Roman Catholic Casa Ricci, which has sheltered more than 35,000 refugees from Red China in past years, "Nothing will stop...
...Wonderful"-the best hockey player in the world. They may be right. As skillful as he is bruising, Howe has played more games (1.073) ard scored more points (1,148) than anybody else in hockey history. He holds the lifetime record for assists (with 636), needs to slip the puck into the net just 33 more times to break Maurice ("Rocket") Richard's career mark of 544 goals. He has won the N.H.L. scoring championship five times; nobody else has won it more than twice. He has been voted the most valuable player five times (another record...
...bottomless stock of half-completed, fluttering and totally impotent hand gestures. To which is added an unpredictable voice that shouts its superstitions in a surprising variety of registers. Mr. Abbott, actor, director, and critic, is Sir Sampson Legend, Valentino's Squire Western of a father. Occasionally he seems to slip from gruffness into his accustomed wearied and mannered style, but for the most part his Legend is every bit the landed Tory blockhead...