Word: falconer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What delights Shakhbut is the traditional life of his people. "The thing that pleases me most," he says, "is hunting for bustards with our falcons. It's tremendous to see the falcon fighting the bustard and killing it. Each falcon has its own special owner and refuses to hunt for anyone else." The sheik is also a connoisseur of camel's milk-his only drink-and can tell by the milk's taste what the camel has been eating and where it was in the desert. For the best milk, he explains, "we feed camels...
What They Do Best. Hampered by heavy taxes, small markets and featherbedded payrolls, many of the local auto plants are inefficient and expensive: a homemade Chrysler Corp. Valiant sells for $3,500 in Venezuela, a Ford Falcon for $5,530 in Argentina. Nationalistic politicians argue that these prices are not too high to pay for developing a national industry that will create jobs, reduce imports and preserve precious foreign exchange. In Brazil alone, 1,300 companies have sprung up to supply the automakers, and only $24 worth of parts on each car is now imported. But Argentina still spends...
...staff were right when they predicted a big market for the four-passenger Thunderbird. They were dead wrong when they helped the cost cutters overrule Ford auto men who felt that the public would soon get tired of the same styling of such Ford makes as the Falcon, Comet, and Thunderbird, none of which has been drastically changed in three or four years, while the rest of the industry has moved ahead with restyled models. Consumer research dictated that Ford concentrate on econ omy features in its models; but G.M., with a more intuitive feeling for the shifting desires...
FORD MOTOR CO.: 1,980,736 1,852,100 Ford 1,537,276 1,493,400 (Falcon) - (358,000) Mercury 371,837 326,500 Lincoln...
...Brattle Theatre reverting to its old policy of reviving interesting movies to erase the blight of Cambridge entertainment. The Humphrey Bogart festival, so missed last January, is back (though in truncated form) and a series of good Guinness reruns provide an admirable complement to Big Sleep and Maltese Falcon...