Word: forded
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sunday, Aug. 24 (ABC, 8-10:45 p.m.): IS PARIS BURNING?, with Kirk Douglas, Glenn Ford, Robert Stack, Orson Welles and half of the acting world...
...bumper. The Edsel cannot have the kind of revenge on its detractors that Richard Nixon has enjoyed; it will not rule the roads, or even be put back into production. In its way, however, the ponderous auto with the odd grille, which lost more than $200 million for the Ford Motor Co. in 1957-'59, is making a comeback. A band of loyal loser lovers is lavishing affection and dollars on the survivors of the 110,847 Edsels produced before Ford had a better idea and ended production...
Vindication Sought. Co-founder and president of the national group is Edsel Henry Ford, 43, a California hospital official who is no relation to the Detroit Fords.* He bought his first used Edsel in 1959, out of curiosity, and now owns six. "I had to fulfill the image" that the name conveyed, he explains. There are even more zealous owners, such as the Midwestern doctor who owns 13 Edsels, the Marine in Viet Nam who had his Edsel shipped to Hawaii to be closer to him, and the long-distance bus driver who, when he sees an Edsel, stops...
...Edsel Henry's father was a great admirer of the original Henry Ford, but a relative used the name Henry Edsel Ford first, so Ford's father simply reversed the names...
...ecology training centers. He is also an activist. "How else can you tab a guy who is out making speeches every night and spending every spare minute writing articles?" A systems analyst who pioneered the use of computers for solving environmental problems, Watt is currently directing a $174,000 Ford Foundation-financed study of California to examine the effects of population growth on urban transportation, pollution, public health and welfare, natural resources and law enforcement. "If we can't lick the population problem," he says, "we'll have to increase the size of the planet or put people...