Word: fording
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Volkswagen Beetle started out as the car that nobody wanted to build. Ferdinand Porsche, who designed it, dreamed from the early 1920s of a "people's car" that would provide the kind of cheap transportation that Henry Ford's flivvers gave the U.S. Even after Adolf Hitler came to power and ordered automakers to produce a small car, Porsche's plans for his slope-nosed oddity got nowhere. Not until 1938, when Hitler made tt a state project did the Volkswagen become a reality-just in time to be modified into a Jeep-like military vehicle...
...Oldsmobile Cutlass, Pontiac Grand Prix, Buick Century and Chevrolet Monte Carlo. Lighter and more economical than their ancestors, the new middies' prices are causing some buyers to balk over what they see as getting less car for more money. That has put dealers on the spot. Says Detroit Ford Dealer Jim McDonald: "The customers feel that since a car is smaller, it's bound to have less in it. Our job is basically education-showing them that the cars have as much as before but are just better packaged." What GM in particular has done, complains Motor News...
...imposed by major studios. Run from a dingy Manhattan headquarters, U.A. has no production facilities, but operates in effect as a banker and distributor for movie people seeking an honest count at the box office and exceptional artistic freedom. It has attracted such diverse talents as Woody Allen, Francis Ford Coppola and Joe Levine. Laments Producer Norman Jewison: "You could walk into United Artists with any crazy dream, and no one would say it was preposterous." U.A.'s venturesomeness paid well too: its 1977 revenues of $469 million from movies, TV rentals, records and music publishing represented...
...remarks. Sometimes this amounts to repudiating a position, but Carter seems more bent on showing that at least he hadn't meant to deceive anyone. His soft-voiced answers at press conferences (with which he is generous) or in friendly televised White House "conversations" turn away wrath. Gerald Ford achieved the same effect. Such an improvement in Government and press manners is welcome, but there have been times when a little asperity on either side did a better job of illuminating an issue...
Lake Placid's efforts to bring back the Olympics began in 1973, when local voters approved the idea in a referendum. Congress and President Ford pledged their support the following year. The International Olympic Committee then designated Lake Placid as its choice and also approved Lake Placid's plan to keep the Games within a limited frame...