Word: lincoln
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...affecting renditions of their adaptable story is the dance created by Antony Tudor in 1943 for the American Ballet Theater (then known as just plain Ballet Theater). Last week, after several years out of the repertory, it was revived and remounted by Tudor for the ABT summer season at Lincoln Center...
...aural high was reported in a whimsical letter to the New England Journal of Medicine by Dr. Thomas E. Piemme of the George Washington University School of Medicine. Identified only as a "young lady of 18," the unwitting pioneer was undressing for a nude dip in the Lincoln Memorial reflecting pool during an antiwar demonstration. She solved the problem of how to protect half a gram of hashish by depositing it in her left ear. How to extract the wad became another problem; amateur efforts pushed the dampened hash deeper into the external auditory canal...
...years ago, jokes about the star-crossed Edsel were a part of almost every comedian's patter. For employees at Ford's Lincoln-Mercury Division, which produced the car, it only hurt when audiences laughed. Bedeviled by bad timing and uneven management, the whole division had become a career junkyard for faltering executives and a rugged boot camp for beginners. Beyond Edsel, Lincoln-Mercury's models offered little individuality. They were nothing but larger, costlier Fords. Sales fell so low that many Lincoln-Mercury dealers were forced to depend on used-car sales...
...Today, Lincoln-Mercury is Detroit's comeback champion. It is the fastest-growing division in the auto industry, posting new sales records month after month. For the year as a whole, L-M sales are up 24%, and its share of the market has climbed from...
Henry Ford slammed the brakes on the downhill ride in 1965 by ordering a complete overhaul of Lincoln-Mercury models. In the past five years, product development costs have risen 70%, and the investment has paid off with some of the most stylish lines in the business. The sporty Cougar, introduced in 1967, attracted young drivers to Lincoln-Mercury showrooms for the first time in a decade; today the Cougar outsells Pontiac's Firebird. The elegant Continental Mark III, brought out in 1968, has picked up 19% of the luxury-car market, which was once the all but exclusive...