<VV> The worst was realized...

[Secular]

  *It could happen to anyone*

  Detroiters chuckle over one aspect of Corvair's troubles. The story goes that
  Ed Cole, big boss at Chevrolet, father of the Corvair, and a Mover &  Shaker on
  the upper slopes of General Motors, was unexpectedly late getting in one 
  morning. It seems that his Corvair had iced up on the way in. 

  A few days after, when Cole was late again, the worst was realized:
  His fan belt had broken...  

  Source:

  Popular Science, May 1960, page 81

  http://tinyurl.com/pm-may60 
   
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  Tony I.