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...executives of the Ford Motor Co. have been driving around Detroit lately with an unusually rhapsodic look on their faces. The look is not the result of Ford's soaring sales-which were up 23% for the first quarter-but of a new auto accessory that Ford hopes will increase its sales even more. Board Chairman Henry Ford II has one in his Lincoln Continental; Vice President Lee Iacocca has one in his red Mustang. Using one on the way home makes Ford Division General Manager Donald Frey feel that he is "sitting in the middle of Carnegie Hall...
...businessmen or economists di agreed with Ackley's prognosis. Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II predicted that the auto industry would sell "at least" 9,000,000 new cars this year, making 1965 the third consecutive record-setting year in Detroit's history. Corporation giants were falling all over themselves in making plans for capital investment in 1965. "I've never seen people so optimistic," said Robert H. Stewart III, president of Dallas' First National Bank. Declared John Brooks, board chairman of Santa Monica's Lear Siegler, Inc., manufacturers of aerospace products, air conditioners...
...sent aloft by Comsat (Communications Satellite Corp.), climbed as high as 22,300 miles above the earth, then curved down as low as 776 miles. When this original orbit had been analyzed and Early Bird was at an apogee, a signal from the earth fired a small rocket motor to give just enough extra speed to put the satellite into a circular orbit that matched the earth's 24-hour period of rotation. In effect, the intricate electronic package put together by Hughes Aircraft picked a spot high above the equator between Brazil and Africa, and there it hovered...
...hand. Navy Storekeeper 2/C Manolito W. Castillo, 26, a clerk at the embassy, was killed in the doorway of the building when the bomb exploded. Three Saigon policemen were blown to bits. In all, 22 persons, most of them innocent Vietnamese pedestrians, were killed, and 190 were hurt. The motor-scooter driver had raced out of the blast area, was shot twice and arrested by pursuing police. He claimed he was a hired helper, that he had been paid $139 by the Viet Cong to offer getaway transportation for the bomber...
...sounds simply too picaresque for words. Two precociously bearded, middle-class Jewish beatniks from The Bronx hop on their motor scooters, Jenny and Couchette, and head west for San Francisco. But 25-year-old Novelist Beagle, who actually made this trip with a friend two years ago, recounts it with the special magic of the born troubadour. His pen is as agile as his eye, whether summing up Las Vegas in a phrase ("never meant to be seen by day") or invoking the excitement of cross-country scootering: "Jenny and Couchette slide in and out among the cars like moonlight...