Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a disappointing 1967-68 season, the staff of the Public Broadcasting Laboratory was naturally let down. Then last month PBL, the Ford Foundation's $12.5 million experiment in public-interest television, began its second year on an encouragingly upbeat note (TIME, Dec. 6). Birth and Death, PBL's cinéma vérité documentary on natural childbirth and death by cancer, won critical acclaim, and the staff was jubilant. Said Executive Director Av (Avram) Westin: "This year we go for broke...
...executive producer of ABC's nightly Frank Reynolds news show. Westin's new job will probably pay him between $50,000 and $60,000 a year (about what he earned at PBL). The imminent departure reinforced industry rumors that PBL will soon be going too. The Ford Foundation's TV consultant, Fred Friendly, would say only that "no decision has been reached at this time...
...trucks. Last week, in a civil antitrust suit filed in the U.S. District Court at Los Angeles, the Justice Department contended that the nation's auto companies have in deed cooperated - but to impede, rather than promote, pollution control. Named in the suit as defendants were General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, American Motors and the Automobile Manufacturers Association. Seven smaller manufacturers were listed as co-conspirators but not as defendants...
...Fiat appeared well after Germany's pioneering Daimler-Benz (1885) and other firms, but four years before Ford...
...Fiat 500 model. Italy's first cheap mass-produced car, the 500 fit Valletta's prescription for something that could be made at the lowest possible cost, yet still be "a complete automobile." Italians dubbed it the "Mickey Mouse," and it proved to be for them what Ford's Tin Lizzie had been to Americans after World War I. At a price of less than $1,000, the car was an easy step up from the motor scooter; four passengers could squeeze into it-if they inhaled and exhaled in sync. The 500 is still Fiat...