Word: forded
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Austin, Texas, Marion G. Ford, a Negro, applied for admission as an undergraduate chemical engineering student at the University of Texas. Open only to Negro graduate students since 1950, the university first notified Ford that he had been accepted, later sent him a letter: "Prairie View A. & M. College [Negro] will offer all the required courses of study for your freshman year . . . After you have completed your first year's work [at that school], you may apply here for admission ... In view of the above [we] regret to advise you that your acceptance notice is hereby canceled...
...Henry Ford never liked outside stockholders in his company. He quarreled bitterly with them from 1903 until 1919, when he paid $75 million to get rid of them once and for all. But since his death in 1947 automen have often heard rumors that Ford Co. stock would be put on the market. Each time, the rumors were false. Last week the rumor was going around again, and this time Henry Ford II conceded that it was "pretty reliable." However, said Henry Ford II, "the stock which may be put up for sale is owned by the Ford Foundation...
...efforts toward self-destruction. In 1953 G.O.P. leaders threw away the governorship by putting up a weak candidate, New Jersey Turnpike Builder Paul Troast. This year a party faction that had learned the lesson of 1953 got able, popular Cliff Case to resign from a $40,000-a-year Ford Foundation job and take the nomination for the U.S. Senate. A short time later, after Case issued a statement attacking Joe McCarthy, the Old Guard faction began to make trouble...
...remote southeastern Utah site that Rasor had marked on the map. The country was so rugged that Pick had to leave his panel truck, walk in the last 25 miles. As he followed Muddy Creek into a stark and jagged canyon, he had to ford the.stream 21 times in six miles. Says Pick: "My feet got wet over and over again, and then they softened and the sand got in and made blisters. At night I would pick the grains of sand out of the blisters with a matchstick. I'd start out walking in the morning...
...Edythe Marrener), 34, red-haired cinemactress (Snows of Kilimanjaro): Jess Barker, 39, onetime bobby-sox hero (The Texan Meets Calamity Jane); after ten years of marriage, two children; in Hollywood. She won the right to keep her part (better than $300,000) of their community property; he got the Ford station wagon and the right to visit their twin sons one night a week and alternate weekends...