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Word: forded (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cameras began rolling stealthily this week on the most elaborately furtive TV production of the season: the first commercial for the Ford Motor Co.'s new medium-priced car, the Edsel. To keep the car's looks hush-hush until the big unveiling Aug. 27, the ad agency hired Hollywood's Cascade Pictures, which makes special movies for the Atomic Energy Commission and the guided-missile program. Said a studio spokesman: "We're using all the same precautions that we take for AEC films." Five shrouded Edsels were whisked across the country by van from Mahwah...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: The Secret Commercial | 7/1/1957 | See Source »

...Ecorse police station Mary's father, Edmund de Caussin Jr., 33, a technical writer for the Ford Motor Co., paced the room, calm but increasingly haggard. By morning he had all but given up hope. But De Caussin, was forming an explosive charge of thought...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Society | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...French Ford came down the boulevard bearing four Moslems: two men, a woman and a child. The young Europeans invited the woman and child out. Then they dragged out the two men, beat them to death, and threw the bodies over the sea wall to the rocks 40 feet below. Then they lifted the Ford and dropped it over the cliff after them. Police, stoically watching this performance, brushed aside a protest by foreign newsmen that they stop the slaughter, said: "We haven't received orders." A French paratroop major who tried to intervene was slapped in the face...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: ALGERIA: Dance of Death | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...Rowan Gaither Jr., chairman of the Ford Foundation LL.D...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Kudos, Jun. 24, 1957 | 6/24/1957 | See Source »

...Song makes the best hot-weather din-and-tonic, thinks NBC. The 7:30 evening slot will be tryout time for promising Vocalist June (Crying in the Chapel) Valli. Baritone Andy Williams and resurgent, as-good-as-ever Helen O'Connell. Tennessee Ernie Ford will end his daytime pea-pickin' at June's end and be replaced by Bride and Groom, the old daytime stand-by that marries couples on the air and presents them with gifts, a reception and honeymoon. Arthur Murray Party, a perennial replacement, has already bounced cheerily on screen in full color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: Summer Slump | 6/17/1957 | See Source »

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