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...sister of Henry II and the wife of Walter Buhl Ford II, an industrial designer who is no kin to the automotive dynasts. Hearing all the talk of the Mustang, Dody asked her brother to let her try it. (Henry himself has been driving one on the freeway between Dearborn and Grosse Pointe, where the chances of being spotted by a photographer are slight.) When Buhlie cast his eye on the fire-engine-red Mustang in the family garage, he could not resist taking a spin, then somewhat carelessly parked the car in a lot near the Sheraton-Cadillac Hotel...
Roomy & Racy. The most intriguing news was made by a new type of U.S. sports car that is inexpensive, roomy and racy. Confirming what everyone had expected, Ford Division Boss Leelacocca announced that Ford's River Rouge assembly plant in Dearborn would be shut down at week's end un til early March to change over to production of Ford's Mustang (TIME, June 14), scheduled to go on sale in mid-April. Available as hardtop or convertible, the Mustang is aimed at those who like the sports-car look but cannot afford Thunderbirds or Rivieras...
According to James M. Perrin '64, head of the project, 12 Harvard and Radcliffe volunteers are presently working with a total of 110 students. These include two fourth-grade classes at the Dearborn School and eight small groups for 10-and 13-year-olds at the Roxbury Boys Club and the Norfolk House Center. The volunteers will give the students books and try to stimulate their interest in reading with discussions and projects...
...though, piped-in music has a way of inflaming people-especially people whose feelings for music force them really to listen. "It's so faint it sounds like angels singing-and that's hell to work with," says an unhappy listener at the Muzakized Ford plant in Dearborn. "It is pallid pap that will cause all our musical teeth to fall out," says Helmut Blume, acting dean of music at Montreal's McGill University. But in all their countless installations, background music hustlers claim to get complaints only from old men in green eyeshades and sleeve garters...
Though many non-Friden Ford oldtimers blame the Friden men for paying more attention to costs than customers, even they admit that Miller has a little gasoline in his blood. He likes to test-drive Fords on the company's spacious Dearborn track, played a major role in toning up the styling of Ford's 1963½ models, which were designed to halt a decline in Ford's share of the market. Miller, in fact, was a nuts-and-bolts man before he was a Friden: at twelve, he bought an old Model T for $10, took...