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BORN. To Edsel Ford II, 31, only son of retired Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II and currently assistant managing director of Ford Australia, and his wife Cynthia Neskow Ford, 29: a son, their first child; in Melbourne. Name: Henry Ford III, after his grandfather and his great-great-grandfather, Henry Ford I, the firm's founder...
...number of electric cars could increase dramatically if Detroit's carmakers ever decide to start building them. Closest is General Motors, which has produced a prototype, the Electro Vette (a Chevette with lead-acid batteries). Last winter GM set up an electric car "project center," where it is working on an advanced zinc-nickel oxide battery with a range of 100 miles. GM EVs could be rolling off assembly lines as soon as the fall of 1983. Ford Motor Co. is working on a sodium-sulfur battery scheduled for lab tests...
...roommate Chesley and I started collecting license plates in 1928 and before we got through we had all the states. We struck up quite an acquaintance with a girl in the Motor Vehicle Department in Miles, Mont., to whom we had written for a sample plate. Most states were quite generous. We told them we were making a study of the style and type of license plate for a college course. Tennessee sent us a pair of perfectly good plates. Some guy snitched them and used them when he went home for the summer...
...with their nightsticks and flashlights. Marrero then stood over the cyclist, now lying still on the ground, and hit him on the head with his nightstick, testified Meier. Added Veverka: "I got splattered with the blood." Hanlon testified that he himself then drove his squad car over the motor cycle to make it look as though the bike had crashed...
...looked like a trustbuster's dream. Last Wednesday the top executives of General Motors, Ford, Chrysler, American Motors and Volkswagen of America all sat down at the same table in the Washington offices of the Motor Vehicle Manufacturers Association for a lunch of asparagus vinaigrette and tomatoes stuffed with chicken salad. But the automen were not fixing prices; they were coordinating strategy for a meeting just after lunch with one of the industry's most powerful critics, Jimmy Carter...