Word: edsels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Born Sept. 4, 1917, to Edsel and Eleanor Clay Ford, Henry led the privileged yet cloistered life of Henry Ford's grandson. His boyhood included chauffeur-driven lifts to grammar school. After Hotchkiss, Ford went to Yale, but he did not graduate. Reason: he paid a student to write a paper for him about Thomas Hardy's novels. Although admitting that he cheated, Ford denied that he was caught because he accidentally dropped the bill for the student's services into the professor's lap. "I may be stupid," he told Biographer Booton Herndon, "but I'm not that stupid...
Nevertheless, while he enjoys being harsh, he also wanted to be fair. At the same time, he wanted to see a movie--by this time, he needed some real screwball farce. Since Mrs. Dewitt had already taken the family Edsel down to the rotogravure-o-rama to pick up some tin plates, the only option was to send out Dewitt...
...President Jimmy Carter scuttled the project. Newly elected Ronald Reagan revived the B-1B in 1981, ordering 100 of the bombers, but as production approaches the halfway point, critics in the Pentagon and elsewhere are decrying the plane as something of a turkey, a "flying Edsel...
...last month's protest at the Fogg Art Musuem, Cambridge Police arrested Edsel and Ruddick as well as 17 other divestment protesters on charges of disorderly conduct and trespassing...
Adams House Senior Tutor Marshall Hyatt, whowould serve as Edsel's representative before theAd Board, refused to comment on Edsel's casebecause he said he has not spoken to her about it.He added that it is customary for the College'sjudiciary body to review any case where a studentis arrested...