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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...
Last week Ford Motor Co. announced that the whole tortuous testing program on its 1973-model engines had been invalidated by an incredible staff bungle. During the course of the 50,000-mile trial runs, the company said, Ford employees performed "unscheduled, unauthorized maintenance" on the test cars, presumably including engine tune-ups and replacement of points and plugs. Since the tests are specifically designed to measure emissions from cars that have been kept in less than topnotch condition-as will often happen when they get into buyers' hands-the unscheduled repair work threw a monkey wrench into Ford...
...biggest business. The firm manages almost twice as much money -about $3 billion-in private portfolios. Until recently these belonged to individuals rich enough to make a $1,000,000 minimum investment, or to the pension funds of such corporations as American Cyanamid, Bristol-Myers, Duke Power and Ford Motor...
...ancient art of haggling, long since fallen into disuse in the U.S. Picture the satisfaction of one Connecticut housewife, for example, who bid for a three-year-old G.E. refrigerator and got it for $50. At the same sale she picked up a Kenmore washer with a new motor for $40 and a 3-h.p. lawn mower for $30. Her only regret : "I missed a Chevy pickup truck that went...
What do a lecturer for Weight Watchers, a saleslady for Hallmark Cards and a hostess at a Howard Johnson's Motor Lodge have in common? They are all doing their jobs dressed in specially designed "career apparel" or "corporate clothing." These are the latest euphemisms for work uniforms that once were confined to the blue-collar set, and are now the vogue in a growing number of white-collar jobs, especially those held by women...