Word: fords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...TIME to get rid of Columbus Day. Celebrating this holiday is like rooting for the cowboys in those old John Ford Westerns--something we all used to do but ought to be ashamed of now that we know some of the real history of the period...
...cars more fuel-efficient, the Big Three have raised their prices about 4% as the new model-year begins, and further hikes may be ahead. Inflation long ago drove the automakers to abandon single-shot increases for an entire model-year. Now the hikes come in bits and pieces. Ford's Mustang, for example, increased in price 14% from the start of the '78 model-year to now. The average price of a U.S.-made car, including taxes and licensing fees, has risen to $6,830, from $5,600 three years...
That leaves Ford's bigger autos-the Lincoln Continental and Mark V-the only full-size cars not going on a diet for 1979. It will be the last year, though, for Ford's yachts; the company is pushing them as collector's items at collector's prices. The Mark V lists at $13,067 and is expected to sell well. That presents a problem for Ford. To meet the 19-m.p.g. average this year, the company must offset the thirst of its big models with increased production of little cars. But sales of its mainstay...
...exteriors shrink, automakers are turning more and more to front-wheel drive as a way to maintain interior space; it eliminates the transmission hump in the floorboards. Buick's Riviera has front-wheel drive for 1979. In the spring, GM will introduce a front-wheel drive Chevy Nova. Ford has lagged behind GM and Chrysler (with its Omni/Horizon) in getting into front-wheel drive; its only entry in the field now is the Fiesta, which it makes in Spain and sells in the U.S. But Ford intends to produce a front-wheel-drive car domestically...
...that Fonda turns his back on his movie past. It is full of "moments," if not full roles, that he relishes. Director John Ford, for whom he worked seven times, was a major influence: "If there is a style that emerged from that group of actors who worked repeatedly with Ford, it was a certain spareness. You learned to rein in your emotions. If they're there, they are going to color your voice, show in your face, the way you move...