Word: motorize
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Semon ("Bunkie") Knudsen once articulated his work ethic in those words, and Detroit veterans recalled them when he surprisingly was passed over for the presidency of General Motors in 1968. Sure enough, Knudsen has since found plenty of jobs. He shifted from executive vice president of GM to president of Ford Motor Co., but lost that position after a power struggle with Lee Iacocca, the current president. Then Knudsen founded Rectrans Inc. to produce mobile homes, only to sell out in 1971 to Cleveland's White Motor Corp. Part of the deal was that he would become chairman...
Souvanna told Simms that whatever happens, "we shall certainly survive." But time is not on his side. In dusty Vientiane, Simms found "no dearth of traffic, from expensive Mercedes, to ex-army Jeeps, to whole schools of motor scooters. It takes a little while to discover that something is not quite the same as in most cities. Then one gradually notices that the driver of the black Mercedes is a beautiful Laotian girl wearing the traditional skirt of glossy silk, heavily embroidered in gold, and that the driver in the Jeep behind her, wearing a pair of smart Levi...
...gripes? Only officers were allowed to have radios. And then there were Dai's Laotian allies, the Pathet Lao. "All they wanted in life was a wristwatch, then a motor scooter and other luxury items," he complained. "They weren't serious. The ones I saw were just fooling about. All the old hands said that the NVA did all the fighting and the Pathet Lao just sat around...
...some automotive experts, the most exciting exhibit at London's recent fall motor show was found not among the gleaming new Jaguars and Rolls-Royces on the floor of the main exhibition hall, but inside a back room where admission was by invitation only. There, away from the car-hungry crowds, a young American automotive whiz and part-time motorcycle racer named Bob Karol displayed small models of a bold new engine design that may some day challenge the much-bally-hooed Wankel...
...were the very best minds that America could produce. There was McGeorge Bundy, Superboy, who went to Yale instead of Harvard because "the Bundys had decided that after both Boston and Groton. Yale might be somewhat broadening." There was Robert McNamara, Whiz Kid, razormind under clicked down hair the Motor City intellectual who had a just for numbers and a remarkable ability to convince other people of things he did not believe himself There was Dean Rush the Georgia boy who became a Rhodes scholar an anticommunist fundamentalist a skipper who saved loyal even after the shop had sunk...