Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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TENNESSEE ERNIE FORD SPECIAL (NBC, 9-10 p.m.). Guests: Lucille Ball, Andy Griffith, Wayne Newton and the Golddiggers...
During the development of the Mus tang, Ford Motor Co. shaped the car's bucket seats to the specifications of those on the British Ford - only to find it necessary to change the design almost immediately. Five years later, with the Mustang's popularity firmly established, company officials can smile about the costly changeover. "We re alized," says one, "that American buttocks are larger than British." To guard against just that kind of mistake, U.S. business is relying increasingly on the fast-growing science of anthropometry, which systematically studies man's ever-changing anatomical measurements and applies...
...Adjustment. While a few companies-Ford is one-employ their own in-house anthropometric specialists, most rely on outside consultants. In recent years, anthropometry has enabled manufacturers to develop movie cameras compact enough to fit snugly in one hand, more fully rounded typewriter keys that are kinder to secretaries' fingernails and elevator buttons that are within the reach of tall and short peo- ple alike...
...associates (a high-powered group of full professors if ever there was one) made 48 Conclusions and Recommendations. Just what to do with that mass of suggestions is a dilemma that has eaten up plenty of administrative energy this fall and is not yet solved. Dean Ford assigned the job to Edward T. Wilcox, director of General Education, Secretary of the Committee on Educational Policy, and all-around administrative handy...
...take this position," argues Dean Ford. "It leads to segregation. This is to isolate cultures in a way no national culture could stand. There are two main reasons we don't agree. One, we don't set up a course to teach any particular kind of student. Two, this would make a shambles of any curriculum, this hang-up between national and intellectual criteria. It is our feeling that a narrative can be honestly taught by honest...