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...terror is rapidly heating up. The number of murders, kidnapings and other terrorist incidents has risen from 654 in January to 1,094 last month. The incidents last week ranged from the shooting of a 47-year-old woman in Saigon by two thugs on a motor bike to a rocket attack on a military prison in Hué that killed 14 soldiers and wounded another...
...secretary, Karen Liable could type "four-barrel carburetor," but she certainly did not know what it did or even looked like. For precisely that reason, she was picked to leave her desk at the Ford Motor Co. last week, don coveralls, and approach a waiting Pinto, the 2,000-lb. subcompact that Ford will put on sale Sept. 11. Her mission: to perform many of the adjustments described in the owner's manual, The Happy Pinto -and How to Keep It That Way. If Karen failed, Ford officials said, the manual would be deemed a failure, and would have...
...daily news of tragic motor accidents is almost too much for all of us who have dedicated our lives to the automobile. When I think of the mental anguish of the traffic victims' families, my conscience cannot rest...
Nader said the money would be used to set up a "continuous legal monitoring of General Motor's activities in the safety, pollution and consumer relations area...
Ford carefully guards his privacy and that of his family. He does not socialize with his employees or other automen. Ford Motor executives are not unhappy about that. They would just as soon not drink with the boss because of his unpredictable moods. Ford likes to travel in Europe, which he does at least four times a year, partly because he is not recognized on the streets there and waiters do not fawn over him as much as they do in the U.S. One former subordinate thinks that he has a defensive streak because he has been surrounded for years...