Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daily Mail has called "the hundred hair-raising days" since, Brown has gone about his job in his own quixotic way, using frankness as a rapier and leaving behind him a trail of trampled toes. On his first trip abroad as Foreign Secretary in October, Brown informed a Detroit audience of top businessmen: "I have always liked to believe that there are some things we British do better than you-and judging by the lunch we've just eaten, feeding is one of them...
Behind the slight fall-off in industry sales are many factors: the armed forces' draft of almost 400,000 young potential buyers, the stock market drop, the slower expansion in consumer credit caused by tight money. Detroit's experts figure that, excluding imports, production will dip from last year's 8,700,000 to 8,350,000 this year, and to 8,000,000 in calendar 1967-which would still make it a very good year...
...state's Governor leading the foray. Governor John McKeithen and a 17-man team of Louisiana bigwigs recently visited Pennsylvania for a fast sales pitch to 139 firms. Governor William Scranton, having enlisted 130,000 businessmen in a group to tout Pennsylvania, has ventured to such places as Detroit, Toronto and San Francisco...
...Detroit's caveats about the troublesome effects of legislated auto safety standards all but faded away after President Johnson signed the Highway Safety Act last September.* Now, though the first set of federal standards, which will be mandatory for 1968 models, are not due until next January, the furor is being revived-this time on the European front...
...actual crash tests, "because with a production of only 50 cars a day, one car represents a tremendous value." Volkswagen fears that the famous beetle will be in for an untoward face lifting if its bumpers must be raised to a standard height to match the big cars from Detroit; the company wants to bolt on bumper guards instead...