Word: edsels
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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There are serious doubts in the auto industry, though, that the DMC-12 will turn into a collector's item, like the Cord or the Edsel. One such skeptic is Semon ("Bunkie") Knudsen, retired president of Ford Motor Co. and mentor of De Lorean when both were at GM. Says he: "Usually you have to have cars built in really small quantities to be collector's items, perhaps 700 or less...
...page ads in the New York Times, Washington Post and Wall Street Journal. Smooth-tongued Georgians led the House forces for the C-5B, which is to be built in Marietta, Ga., while a squadron of Boeing backers from Washington and Kansas derided Lockheed's plane as the Edsel of the air. Democratic Representative Thomas Downey of New York echoed Boeing supporters: "The C-5B is in the top five of turkeys. The alltime turkey hall of fame...
...Pressure on the screen tells the computer to retrieve the information stored on the videodisc corresponding to the word or symbol touched. Although the computer makes the system truly responsive, what makes its applications so exciting is the versatility of the videodisc. And you thought the disc was the Edsel of video technology...
...five interceptions marred an otherwise strong performance. His three-week layoff due to a knee injury hurt his precision, and he tossed a couple of errant passes deep in the Crimson end that could have cost Harvard the game had the William and Mary offense not resembled an Edsel. It is hard to believe after witnessing Saturday's game that W & M actually beat Rutgers--which lost a tight game to powerful Alabama and crushed Princeton and Cornell...
...BORN. To Edsel Ford II, 31, only son of retired Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II and currently assistant managing director of Ford Australia, and his wife Cynthia Neskow Ford, 29: a son, their first child; in Melbourne. Name: Henry Ford III, after his grandfather and his great-great-grandfather, Henry Ford I, the firm's founder...