Word: fords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...free-spending third quarter of 1968, socked away 6.9% last quarter. The figures confirm what retailers have already noted: a drop in consumer buying. Now, as expected, the squeeze seems to be spreading to auto sales. Chrysler sales are down 12% from early last year, when strikes at Ford and General Motors gave the company an unusual advantage. To bring inventories in line with current sales, Chrysler will lay off 32,000 men for as long as two weeks and reduce its February output by 25% from its originally scheduled 140,000 cars. Ford has been curtailing production...
...Harvard Corporation will act on the Faculty's resolution at its regular meeting February 17. Dean Ford noted yesterday that the Corporation has in the past failed to approve recommendations from the Faculty or has asked for revisions. He declined to predict the Corporation's decision...
...following are excerpts from the text of the report of the Rosovsky Committee on African and Afro-American Studies, a Faculty committee of nine members appointed last April by Dean Ford, and chaired by Henry Rosovsky, professor of Economics. The report is virtually complete with the exception of the section on African studies...
Nine students--three each from the HUC, the HRPC, and the SFAC--will attend the meeting and join in the discussion. Dean Ford, who asked the three groups to name representatives last month, said that the students will have "the same prerogatives as Faculty members," except for the right to vote, at the meeting...
...implications of this are clear. In the face of rising student concern with ROTC, the Army presents a memorandum to the CEP, a memorandum the content of which is kept secret. The day of the faculty meeting, Dean Ford calls a press conference to explain the CEP resolution, before little understood and intentionally so. It was a clear attempt to forestall student displeasure and announce a fait accompli before anything could be done about it. And this is precisely why he reacted so strongly to the prospect of 200 students sitting quietly at the Faculty meeting: a real and honest...