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Improving big-city high schools get Ford Foundation awards
...high school. Crippled by crime, underfunding and racial strife, the schools have been unable to motivate students who play hooky and mark time. Academic performance has been abysmal. But now there are signs that some ghetto high schools, despite their appalling problems, are making substantial progress. Last week the Ford Foundation singled out 92 schools in 20 large cities for praise and gifts of $1,000 each, which were far more important for their symbolic value than for their monetary worth. In June about half of the schools will receive $20,000 grants to help their climb...
Auto manufacturers have not been enthusiastic about lemon laws, which are now under consideration in 35 state legislatures. "We already have adequate safeguards for the consumer," said a Ford Motor Company spokesman in New York, adding that Ford planned to establish a customer appeals board in Massachusetts this July...
Patricia Bloom, an internist at New York City's Montefiore Hospital, thinks Ford's position on the similarities between somatizers and doctors may have some validity but is "skeptical that the doctor is fearful for the same reason that the patient is." Arthur Barsky, a psychiatrist at Boston's Massachusetts General Hospital, believes Ford's views are difficult to substantiate. Says he: "The way you treat somebody has a lot to do with the way you think about yourself. That phenomenon is there. Beyond that, it's inference...
...buyers already are showing the influence of cheaper oil. Sales of Chevrolet's full-size Caprice and Impala models rose 12.6% during the first quarter, for ex ample, while its subcompact Chevette showed a 40.2% drop. Ford sold 25.3% more of its big Crown Victorias, and 9.8% fewer of its little Escorts. Ford is extending the life of its Victoria and Grand Marquis models, which were to have been phased out this year, and Chrysler is keeping its big New Yorker and producing large cars 16% faster than it did four months ago. Chairman Lee Iacocca, however, wants...