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...triumvirate is to "provide a vehicle for some Ford to sit in that office when I retire at 65." That would be in 1982, but Henry insisted that he did not know who it would be. A sister and two brothers have shown little interest. That leaves Son Edsel, 28, now a Ford executive in the Boston area. But Henry says that Edsel is "a good ten years away" from even a vice presidency. Reminded that he himself was 28 when he took over Ford Motor in 1945, Henry grinned and observed, "Times have changed...
Died. Eleanor Clay Ford, 80, one of the world's richest women (estimated fortune: between $100 million and $200 million); widow of Edsel Ford and mother of Henry Ford II; in Detroit. After her husband's death in 1943, Mrs. Ford forced her father-in-law, Ford Motor Co. Founder Henry Ford, to appoint her eldest son (then only 28) as the firm's new president. At the time, she controlled 54% of the company's voting stock and threatened to sell her shares on the open market if young Henry...
Okay, so my tongue's in my cheek and I'm having a little fun with George Ford--he's not nearly as bad as the Ford in the White House. The fact remains, however, that his team, at 2-6, is running like an Edsel. Moreover, the credibility of Ford's explanations for the team's weak record is not much higher than that of a used car salesman's pitches...
...awfully hard to shift an Edsel, though, and George Ford has but a few weeks to spark life into what has been a lackluster season thus...
...recent months gang members have blazed a trail of terror. They accosted one youth on the street, ordered him to run, then shot him in the buttocks for no reason. They boarded buses and relieved all passengers of their valuables. They branched out to the Edsel Ford and the Lodge freeways, descending on stalled cars like army ants to rob, beat and rape terrified motorists. They devised a game called "Russian," in which one punk would knock on the door of a home while his confederates hid in the bushes; when the door opened, the whole mob would storm...