Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...what, in addition to his purely managerial skill, determines whether the Dean will have the Faculty's confidence or not; and his whole authority is based on that confidence from the Faculty and Corporation. Therefore the Dean is reluctant to push the Faculty too hard for reforms. When Dean Ford says that the CEP cannot push any harder for the HPC's recommendations, then he is either against those proposals himself or he does not want to risk a Faculty reaction to "too much too fast." Students should exert greater pressure on departments to back the measures. On the whole...
...million cars, which would make the model-year one of the industry's best. But auto salesmen, who are still in the midst of winter dol drums, are beginning to wonder. As a result of last year's 45-day strike, Ford production is still catching up, and sales are off 40% for the model-year thus far. General Motors is down 1% from last year in spite of such hot numbers as the Pontiac Tempest. Smaller American Motors is up 5.5% on the strength of its sporty Javelin but, while this is pleasing to American, it amounts...
Chrysler is the industry's happiest exception. Chrysler sales are up 6% to 444,700 cars thus far in 1968. And since the Ford strike sent many a prospective customer to a Chrysler showroom, Chrysler last week reported fourth-quarter 1967 sales of $2 billion and earnings of $107 million. That one impressive quarter overcame sluggish earlier business-and sent sales for the year to $6.2 billion. Chrysler's twelvemonth earnings of $200.4 million are 6% better than last year...
...General Motors type of integration and more new models." But it will require heavy investment ($360 million, according to industry estimates) and perhaps three years before B.L.M. will be ready with its first new car. Between now and then, the newly merged company's U.S. competitors in Britain-Ford, Vauxhall (G.M.) and Rootes (Chrysler) -are not going to stand idly...
Aspiring Updikes. On the strength of his first prize in the current festival, U.C.L.A.'s Lucas has been given a contract to expand THX into a full-length film under the guidance of Warners-Seven Arts Producer Francis Ford Coppola (You're a Big Boy Now), who graduated from U.C.L.A. in 1967. That kind of instant success is the exception. The rule is instant obscurity. A case in point is Marty Scorsese, 25, an N.Y.U. film-school graduate whose It's Not Just You, Murray won a first prize at the 1965 student festival-and might just...