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...Montegos. In 16 cases the rear axles and wheels actually came off these new cars. Ford will bring each car back twice-the first time to install a retainer plate on the rear axle to hold it in place; the second time to replace the whole axle with a heavier...
Ford executives insist that installing only a retainer plate would have assured driver safety. Drivers feared otherwise -particularly after they learned that Ford intends to put heavier axles on new Torinos and Montegos coming off the assembly line. By the beginning of last week, the Detroit Free Press was denouncing the decision to install only retainer plates as a "corporate cop-out," and Ford dealers had received more than 1,000 complaints and inquiries from customers demanding that the axles be replaced...
...from sloppy workmanship or careless quality control but bad engineering decisions. In effect, the faults are designed into the cars-unintentionally to be sure -by engineers making the wrong compromises between safety, cost and speed considerations. In the current case, Ford redesigned its 1972 Torinos and Montegos, making them heavier for the sake of a smoother ride, yet engineers thought that they could safely hold down costs by using the same axle as the one that went onto the 1971s. Richard Judy, public relations manager for consumer services, admits: "Maybe all factors were not given careful consideration...
...perimeter, knocking out at least five tanks and killing scores of enemy troops. Another Communist armored force roared east on Highway 9 in the darkness, but missed the turn to its objective, Dong Ha. When the sun rose, the parked, puzzled Communists found themselves under the muzzles of heavier ARVN M48 tanks. Result: six more North Vietnamese tanks knocked out. Said a U.S. adviser: "Yes, we stopped them cold. The battle is not over, but I think that the crisis is past...
...general impression at the University (even among some Black students) that Afro-Am courses are guts. In reality there are few guts in the department. Three courses I looked into for this year had heavier reading lists than my seminar, plus papers and-or exams...