Word: fords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mexico soon became the Arizona border, Fort Defiance (Actual Fort Defiance Souveniers Here! Spend Money!), and then, turning south, the Painted Desert, the Petrified Forest, and Winslow, Arizona loomed up. Eagles or no Eagles, no girl in a flatbed Ford drove up to the corner where I was standing, so I continued on the Flagstaff, and by nightfall to within five miles of the Grand Canyon...
...Last week, the Castro connection was the chief topic of testimony before the House Select Committee on Assassinations from an all-star cast that included, remarkably, Castro, ex-CIA Director Richard Helms, former Attorney General Nicholas Katzenbach and the three surviving members of the Warren Commission: former President Gerald Ford, former Kennedy Adviser John J. McCloy and former Senator John Sherman Cooper of Kentucky...
...Ford acknowledged that the CIA had never told the Warren Commission about its attempts to assassinate Castro. "Why we weren't given it, I frankly don't understand," he said. Yet he insisted that the information would not have changed the commission's conclusion that Oswald acted alone, because the members had thoroughly studied the possibility of Cuban involvement anyway. Ford said the idea was presented in strong arguments by the U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, who felt that Castro was somehow involved...
...Beryl Sprinkel, executive vice president of Chicago's Harris Bank, and he foresees a mild and brief one. His forecast: real G.N.P. will drop 2.4% in the third quarter next year and 3.2% in the fourth quarter, but start back up in early 1980. Alan Greenspan, formerly President Ford's chief economic adviser, also sees a recession?but not until 1980, and then so gentle that it will just about meet the technical definition: two successive quarters of declines in real G.N.P...
...Nixon Administration had the shop harder program, which urged housewives to flock to store food sales. Gerald Ford had his WIN (Whip Inflation Now) crusade. Now comes the Carter Administration's entry in the P.R. war against rising prices: a 16-page booklet titled A Consumer's Shopping List of Inflation Fighting Ideas. The guide's producer, Esther Peterson, 71, the feisty $51,000-a-year head of the Office of Consumer Affairs, says that the idea is "to help you cope" and to show people how to "stretch their food, housing, energy and health care dollars." Some of Peterson...