Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seven Harvard professors, including David Riesman, Henry Ford II Professor of Social Sciences, and Stanley H. Hoffmann, professor of Government, have joined an academic council to advice the "McCarthy Historical Project" on how to build an archival history of Senator Eugene McCarthy's presidential campaign...
...collection contains more than two million playbills, posters, views and plans of theatres--including the only known floor plan of Ford's Theatre as it existed when Lincoln was shot--portraits of players, and manuscripts dealing with the history of the stage...
Everybody was well fortified with vintage Mumm's champagne before the bubbly pairs of part-time actors began playing the part of traveling companions in the filming of a series of Braniff Airways commercials. First off, there was baseball's Whitey Ford tweaking the twitching mustache of Salvador Dali. Then came another Odd Couple, Mickey Rooney and Rex Reed. "Let's hurry this show up," cracked the much-married Rooney. "I gotta be in court. I'm gettin' another divorce, ya know." The most memorable set of seatmates, though, was Novelist Mickey Spillane ("I only...
During research into the meteorology of fogs, scientists at the Air Force Cam bridge Research Laboratories in Bed ford, Mass., concluded that there might be a simple way to disperse mists that develop when moist air near the ground is cooled at night. The researchers reasoned that if the warm, drier air above could somehow be driven down into the moist blanket of fog, it would cause suspended water droplets to evaporate, thus clearing...
...made cars and trucks in 1968, the best year for total vehicle sales in Detroit's history. Despite slightly lower profit margins, General Motors had a $1.73 billion profit, up 6% from 1967, on record sales of $22.8 billion. Chrysler increased earnings by 45%, to $291 million. Ford, which has yet to report, will show a gain over 1967, when it was slowed by a 49-day strike. Struggling American Motors earned $11.8 million during the fiscal year ending last September, its first full-year profit since 1965. The performance was helped by tax credits and the sale...