Word: civics
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Though a millionaire several times over by now, he lives with his wife and younger daughter (their other daughter is at college in the East) in a comparatively modest 13-room Colonial home in suburban Bloomfield Hills, and is active in Detroit area civic and charitable groups. He likes jazz and Big Band music, but has no hobbies. His close friends tend to come from outside the auto industry, and he has made a point of avoiding the social circles of "Mister Ford," as lacocca and other Ford executives respectfully call their ruler. lacocca once explained...
...mechanical engineer, not a social engineer," he says in his guise as realist. "I was an English major at Bates. The nearest I came to formal science was a minor in geology. That's all right. The Teton Dam and the Hartford Civic Center were both designed by engineers. The state of Maine's made up of tinkerers -they'll tackle anything-and maybe that's what the world needs...
...Clamshell Alliance, a New England anti-nuclear group, has made Seabrook a nation-wide issue by sending speakers to civic and church groups, disseminating literature and by staging two large demonstrations at the construction site. The most recent demonstrations on June 24 and 25 attracted 18,000 protesters. The Alliance advocates alternatives to nuclear energy such as existing fossil fuels, solar and wind energies...
That would have been particularly painful, because Lykes last September closed some facilities in and near Youngstown, Ohio, eliminating 5,000 jobs. Local church and civic leaders hope to reopen the mills by collecting funds from people in the area and getting Government-guaranteed loans, but their chances seem slim and will be unaffected by last week's decision...
...warning, it would not be a good omen for the front-wheel-drive cars that they are preparing to bring out over the next two years. Americans already are buying hundreds of thousands of front-wheel-drive cars imported from abroad, including Volkswagen's Rabbit, Honda's Civic and the Ford Fiesta. Consumers Union found no fault with these cars, which it says passed the same tests that the Omni-Horizon flunked. Nor did Consumers Union express any doubts about the concept of front-wheel drive; indeed, it said a properly designed front-wheel-drive car can handle...