Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Young, 55, the son of a tailor raised in Detroit's Black Bottom ghetto, the celebration seemed "more like a coronation than an inauguration." It capped a lifetime of fighting for black rights, first as a union organizer at the Ford Motor Co. in the late 1930s, later as a leader of the leftist National Negro Labor Council in the '50s and as a politician in the '60s. A state senator since 1964, he fought for passage of an open-housing law and against a ban on busing children to integrate schools. In both cases, whites from...
...kidnaping climaxed months of terrorist activity in which the emotions of Argentina's businessmen have been violently whipsawed. On Nov. 22, leftist guerrillas ambushed and brutally shot to death John Swint, the American general manager of a Ford Motor Co. subsidiary. Eight days later, Ford got a call indicating that unless $4,000,000 was paid to the guerrillas, more lives would be "jeopardized." As a result, 22 executives of the company and their families left Argentina immediately. Ford, the country's largest carmaker, seriously considered closing its plants, which employ about 10,000 people...
William Shockley, inventor of the transistor and would-be geneticist, claims to have discovered that "the world spins on a teensy, weensy electric motor." "Sure, I'm saying this partly for shock value," Shockley says, "but, gosh, how else do you explain a play title like Stop the World, I Want to Get Off, or a movie like The Day the Earth Stood Still...
First Ripple. Even those auto executives wedded to the idea of luxury are learning to think small. At Ford Motor Co., Vice President Lee Iacocca scored a personal triumph in 1965 with the Mustang, a car that was 181.6 in. long and weighed 2,567 Ibs. Over the years, the Mustang gained 12 in. and 653 Ibs. For the 1974 model year, lacocca, now Ford Motor president, is placing the company's bets heavily on the Mustang II, a car about the size of his original Mustang and listing at $2,895. Luxury features make it difficult to find...
...suburban job. (About 25% both live and work in the city, and 7% reverse-commute from the city to the suburbs.) As many suburbanites know, that pattern has produced traffic snarls, at intersections dozens of miles outside the core city, that rival anything encountered on downtown streets. Says Ford Motor Chairman Henry Ford II: "Subways are fine for getting downtown and back, but most people don't travel downtown and back any more. They travel all over the place. And you can't build subways all over the place...