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...Ford Motor Co. paid defense lawyers more than $1 million to fight Indiana's charges that, because of design faults, it was guilty of reckless homicide in the fiery deaths of three teen-agers whose Pinto was rear-ended in 1978. After a dramatic trial, the giant automaker won. Last week it compensated the parents of the three girls. The total amount: $22,500. In exchange, the families promised not to sue Ford in civil court. The $7,500-a-person payoff is a mere fraction of the million-dollar settlement Ford has agreed to in some...
Whether the person is a veteran automobile worker or an inner-city black youth, unemployment takes a heavy psychological toll. Jerroll Kuerzi, 53, the father of eight, was an industrial engineer at the recently closed Ford Motor plant in Mahwah, N.J. He had already felt the sting of economic upset twice in his life: as a six-year-old during the Great Depression, when his parents were forced to sell the family home; and in the 1958 recession, when he lost both his job with International Harvester and his home in Indianapolis. In June, economic downturn tripped Kuerzi a third...
Since Alexis de Tocqueville trumpeted the virtue and necessity of political participation, Americans have been, well, participating, albeit in somewhat contrived fashion. Involvement in the political process rejuvenates the individual and strengthens the country. With a zeal even Tocqueville might have underestimated, the elephants trundled to the Motor City last week to climax long months of participation--or, as one clever delegate with an ear for language said, "participaction...
...WOMAN sporting what had become a familiar "Reagan-Bush" button wandered up and down the aisles before the plane departing Detroit for Boston was ready to take off. Left behind were the glimmering towers of the Motor City's Renaissance Center, the "good" parties, the four days of unceasing rhetoric and unbridled optimism...
...Detroit's downtown. So, too, has the unusual rapport between black city officials and the community's white business executives, who rarely live within the city limits. The outspoken Young, for example, does not hesitate in public to rib his good friend Henry Ford II. When the former Ford Motor Co. boss complained in a speech that the 73-story Detroit Plaza Hotel, the showpiece of the city's celebrated Renaissance Center complex along the waterfront, might be doing nicely in attracting conventions but was not producing enough "transient business," Young took a microphone to declare: "Hank the Deuce just...