Word: detroit
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...Tall Are You?" The 1952 presidential campaign marked Galbraith's first active involvement in politics. He authored Adlai Stevenson's Detroit La bor Day speech and shaped his economic policy from the campaign train. With somewhat less enthusiasm, he repeated the role in 1956. "Tragedy the second time is comedy," he notes wryly. Along with Schlesinger and Averell Harriman, he acted as Kennedy's liaison man with the Stevensonian liberal Establishment during the 1960 campaign, did the same for Bobby Kennedy during his 1964 Senate race in New York...
...firm control, notably the brilliant but impulsive Lee lacocca, 43, who heads Ford's North American automotive operations. lacocca (TIME cover, April 17, 1964) had been widely regarded as a candidate for the Ford presidency. Now, he presumably faces a decade of waiting under Knudsen-and one of Detroit's current speculations is what...
Clemens went into high school coaching in three Michigan schools for the next eight years, during which time he received a Masters in physical education from Purdue in 1956. In 1960, he was named offensive line coach at the University of Detroit, a position he held until January, 1962, when he came with head coach Jim Miller to Boston College...
Spies who stay out in the Detroit cold these days are working overtime trying to turn up intelligence about the final styling and appearance of the new Continental Mark III. As it happens, Ford Motor's Lincoln-Mercury division is shielding the Mark III like an H-bomb until its well-publicized first appearance at the Chicago auto show late this month. Last week, however, at least one spy managed to foil Ford's counter-intelligence and photograph a Mark III during trial spins at the company's Dearborn test track. The picture shows a very stylish...
...Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair, was voted one of the ten best designs of modern times, sold only 5,300 after Edsel Ford introduced it in 1939. The Mark II, which featured simply sculptured "slab sides" instead of the chrome that was the rage in Detroit in 1956, sold 3,000 over a two-year life span. But Ford estimates that 15,000 Mark IIIs will be sold in the car's first year. Beautiful people have begun to buy beautiful Mark IIIs even before the formal introduction. Entertainer Sammy Davis Jr. ordered one for April...