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...time, the Arab blacklist runs to some 600 corporations or individuals in 64 nations. Ford Motor Co. is on it for setting up an assembly plant in Israel despite the fact that there is another Ford subsidiary in Egypt, and Moviemaker Otto Preminger is on it for having made Exodus. But Hilton and Sheraton manage hotels in Tel Aviv as well as Cairo, and such airlines as Air France, Lufthansa, SAS and TWA service both sides. Bonwit Teller, the U.S. department store, is on some boycott lists, presumably for handling Israeli fashions...
Japan, which relies on Arab oil for 40% of its requirements, scrupulously respects the boycott. Two years ago, the Nissan Motor Co., which was then selling about 2,000 vehicles a year in Arab countries, told an Israeli dealer that he could not import any of its cars. "Please understand our awkward situation with your cordial heart," Nissan wrote the dealer. The Japanese still refuse landing rights in Tokyo to El Al. In retaliation, 7,000 U.S. travelers canceled reservations on Japan Air Lines to the 1970 Osaka world's fair...
...only did the league persuade the Justice Department and some moviemakers to ban the term Mafia, but its campaign against corporations that used Italian stereotypes in their advertising led to cancellation of television commercials, including a prizewinning Alka-Seltzer ad, "Spicy Meatballs." The Ford Motor Co. assured the league that in television series it sponsored the FBI would not track down criminals belonging to something called the Mafia. Plans for a $3.5 million hospital were announced; recently the league set up a children's summer camp. A year after the first pickets marched in front of FBI headquarters, Colombo...
...tested at a veterans' hospital in New York City and rehabilitation centers in Los Angeles and Houston, the Sight Switch -which costs $700 to $900-is remarkably easy to operate, even for the untrained. As one built-in safety feature, the computer is programmed to switch off the motor and bring the chair to a halt whenever one eye command for movement is not promptly followed by another...
...lacocca, Sc.D., engineer and president of Ford Motor...