Word: lacocca
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...lacocca, LL.D., president of Ford Motor Co. Creative involvement in the evolution of that corral of young people's vehicles [Mustang, Maverick, Pinto] has shown a balanced alertness to engineering, financial and psychological trends...
...will undoubtedly boost demand for new cars, and the import surtax (or the currency revaluations that it is designed to bring about) will make U.S. automakers' lowest-priced models competitive with Volkswagen and other big-selling imports for the first time in a decade. In Detroit, Ford President Lee lacocca beamed: "This makes Nixon's trip to China look like child's play...
...three rolled back scheduled increases averaging about 5% on their entire '72 line. The lower prices will hit hardest at financially troubled Chrysler (1970 losses: $7,600,000). Generally, Ford and G.M. officials are hoping to make up for the freeze with rapidly increasing volume. Says Ford's lacocca: "1972 cars at 1971 prices will be a helluva...
...lacocca, Sc.D., engineer and president of Ford Motor...
...York, attended a press conference at league headquarters to announce that "Mafia" and "Cosa Nostra" would not be part of the dialogue because they made "no difference in the art'stic meaning of the film." Then the league released a letter from Ford Motor Co. President Lee lacocca promising that the television series The FBI, which Ford sponsors, would avoid those terms in next season's episodes. Swift & Co. also agreed to change a TV advertisement that featured an Italian delicatessen owner, and Alka-Seltzer promised to discontinue its prizewinning commercial "Spicy Meatballs...