Word: flints
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...galas, at some $300,000 a throw. Ford once unwrapped not only its new line but a lissome young lady who pranced around in little but her chassis. Another time, Ford distributed Fairlane fenders as gifts. General Motors' Buick Division once tore up the lobby floor at Flint's Durant Hotel and installed a trout stream for newsmen...
...pocket for direct aid as well. In 1929, after some bank employees embezzled $3,600,000, Mott shelled out enough money to save the bank; it cost him more than $1,000,000 in co!d cash. In later years he donated millions of dollars for library buildings, the Flint Junior College, a swimming pool and a school for handicapped children...
Thanks to Mott's foundation, every one of Flint's 47 public schools stays open after regular hours and becomes a community center. In the afternoons, 375 neighborhood baseball teams take over the school grounds. In the evening, 80,000 grownups pour into the schools to busy themselves in 1,200 adult-education courses...
More than anything else, Mott's philanthropy is aimed at one aspect of Flint life. "Educators these days are concentrating on geniuses," he says. "We don't neglect them, but we're more interested in hoi polloi." His new $128 million gift to the foundation has not been earmarked for any specific purposes. Explains Mott: "My push is largely in the direction of people who have less opportunity, so we're promoting education for people who haven't had the opportunity to learn...
...years ago, somebody asked Mott how much he was worth. "Doesn't matter," he said. "What matters is what a man does with his worth." The people of Flint know what that means...