Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pass," says Parnelli Jones, "and Mario often doesn't." Two-time Indy 500 Winner Rodger Ward says that Andretti "has to learn patience; he tries to overpower the competition." But maybe Mario can. He is the early favorite to win next month's Indy 500 in his Ford-powered Dean Van Lines Special; he also will drive a Ford Mark IV sports car at Le Mans in June and, if Sebring was any test, he will probably be favored there...
...Detroit's favorite yardstick -sales - the Ford Mustang is the most successful car ever introduced. And the men who were responsible for it are being suitably rewarded. Lee Iacocca, the Ford division general manager who introduced the Mustang (TIME cover, April 17, 1964), is now corporate vice president responsible for all Ford Motor Co. production and sales. Donald N. Frey (pronounced Fry), Iacocca's assistant general manager and chief engineer, the man who actually designed the Mustang, succeeded his boss two years ago as Ford division general manager. Last week Frey, 44, moved even higher. He was promoted...
...onetime metallurgy professor at the University of Michigan, Frey joined Ford in 1951 to get practical experience. He speaks Russian and French, likes opera, follows archaeology as a hobby, and reads the London Times Literary Supplement as avidly as Ward's Automotive Reports. So professorially engrossed is he in his work that when Boss Henry Ford II tapped him for his new job, Frey forgot to ask whether it meant a pay raise. So far, it hasn...
...Shaw. "I just didn't expect them to be that good." Even April sales of autos showed a sharp increase for the first ten days of this month. Chrysler reported a 25% rise, struggling American Motors had an 8% gain, and General Motors improved sales by 5%. Only Ford was still off with a 9% decline from last year. "People," said Pontiac General Sales Manager Thomas L. King, "walk into showrooms now in a buying rather than a looking mood...
Representatives of the two-month-old Federation of Teaching Fellows will present the petition today to Dean Ford and to John P. Elder, Dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences. The Federation drafted the petition in February...