Word: edsel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Johnson is about as popular as the Edsel," Cohen said. "The most effective way to put pressure on a political person like Johnson is through the ballot. By defeating the President in a series of primaries next spring we hope to demonstrate Johnson's unpopularity--which is tremendous--as forcefully as possible...
...Tuesday morning, Detroit was shrouded in acrid smoke. The Edsel Ford and John C. Lodge freeways were nearly deserted. Tens of thousands of office and factory workers stayed home. Downtown streets that are normally jammed were almost empty. Looters smashed the windows of a Saks Fifth Avenue branch near the General Motors office building, made off with furs and dresses. With many grocery stores wrecked and plundered throughout the city, food became scarce. Some profiteering merchants were charging as much as $ 1 for bread...
...then called, for both services. When General Dynamics Corp.'s design got the nod over Boeing's, the bickering grew louder-and helped ease the Chief of Naval Operations out of his job. Congress, too, filled the air with investigations over what critics called "the flying Edsel." So cloudy were the F-111's skies that even last year General Dynamics President Roger Lewis could not guess how big the buy might be: "We don't know how many children we'll have," he shrugged. "We're just engaged...
...apparent CIA conduits were several trusteed by distinguished educators and scholars-including the Harvard Law School Fund. Even the National Council of Churches gathered a few dollars. More than a score of dummy fronts, such as the Gotham Foundation, the Beacon Fund, the Borden Trust, the Michigan Fund, the Edsel Fund, the Andrew Hamilton Fund, fed money from CIA into legitimate foundations such as the J. M. Kaplan Fund, the M. D. Anderson Foundation, the Hoblitzelle Foundation and the David, Josephine, and Winfield Baird Foundation, which, in turn, completed a supposedly secret "triple pass" by dispensing money to various organizations...
Married. Eleanor Clay Ford, 20, Detroit debutante with two Fords in her family, her mother, who was Edsel Ford's only daughter, and her industrial-designer father, whose ancestors (no cars, no kin) were Michigan high society long before the first Model T; and Frederic Avery Bourke Jr., 20, a junior at the University of Michigan...