Word: motor
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Some actors were so prominent in the Viet Nam tragedy that they became permanently identified with their roles: Robert McNamara was the whiz-kid president of Ford Motor Co. beforehand and head of the World Bank afterward, but he is still remembered as the Secretary of Defense who calibrated America's growing involvement. Others were caught in the national spotlight for an awkward instant and have been trying to live it down ever since. Mary Ann Vecchio was a 14-year-old runaway from Florida captured by a photographer as she knelt in anguish over a dead student...
...orders. Made of aluminum to save weight, the mobile home-like sleepers range in length from 28 in. to 120 in. front to back and cost from $2,400 for a basic single-bed model to $40,000 for a compartment more elaborate and feature filled than many recreational motor homes...
Cubs Manager Jim Frey, a minor-league batting champion of 1957, used to soak his bats in motor oil, an appropriate balm for one whose travels led him practically everywhere but to the major leagues. While awaiting promotion with the St. Louis Cardinals, though, Frey once drew near enough to Stan Musial to hear a definition of a doubleheader that stayed with him. "That's when Stanley can get ten hits in one day!" Musial exclaimed. "Think of it, ten hits!" On such optimum expectations, all Cubdom is founded, even in the after-math of three season-ending losses...
...most businessmen and the excessive bravado of Iacocca," Riesman says, "there is a position of responsible corporate leadership." A recent article in the New Republic suggests that Iacocca's mythic managerial skills may be seriously overrated. The Wall Street Journal, Iacocca's longtime antagonist, recently called him the "Motor City's most famous motor mouth." On the subject of trade conflicts with the Japanese, he does in fact speak somewhat promiscuously. Says an ex-colleague from Ford, where Iacocca worked for 32 years: "He doesn't know when to shut...
...begun by the Japanese four years ago to head off stringent measures by Congress to protect Detroit's then bleeding auto industry. Helped by the protection and by their own new efficiencies, Detroit's automakers have revived, earning profits of $9.8 billion in 1984. One sign of prosperity: Ford Motor Co. last week distributed $360 million of its $2.9 billion of 1984 profits to 170,000 hourly and salaried workers at the company's U.S. operations, an average of $2,000 for each...