Word: motorized
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...refer to the U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. as "Motor Mouth" is both distasteful and a disgrace to the man and the office he represents...
...Generis. The incident should awaken consumers to an underappreciated fact of auto-buying life: though manufacturers try hard to tout each car model as unique, autos are actually highly standardized products with many interchangeable parts. Ford and Lincoln cars made by Ford Motor Co. share the same engines, as do Dodge, Plymouth and Chrysler cars made by Chrysler Corp. Other automakers have escaped so far the trouble GM has landed in because their advertising has not given consumers quite as strong an impression that each car is sui generis as GM's ads have...
...gentle hills east of Cologne -4,300 miles from Hinsdale-the people of Rösrath (pop. 21,000) are also enjoying the good life. The commuters include middle-management executives at the large Ford Motor Co. plant, professors at Cologne's famous university, and chemical engineers who work at the massive refineries near the city. About 30% of the families earn more than $21,000 per year-a cut above the average for the typical German suburb. Nonetheless, a lingering frugality engendered by the war years pervades Rösrath and makes the residents far more energy-conscious...
...everyday sight is a housewife pedaling her bicycle home from the supermarket, straining to see over the top of grocery bags stuffed into the handlebar basket. Rösrath teen-agers can get where they have to go on bicycles or mopeds-bikes powered by a small, auxiliary motor that can cover 200 miles or so on a gallon of gas. There is no compulsion for adults to go into Cologne in search of entertainment. Rosrath has a local orchestra, four good choirs and four soccer-handball clubs with a total membership...
...appears to enhance Caldwell's position in the interim and blunt lacocca's rise, at least for now. When Henry is in Washington touting his views on energy legislation and emission standards to Congress and President Carter (he was an early Carter supporter), Caldwell will run Ford Motor. Only if Caldwell is unavailable will lacocca take over. lacocca fathered the phenomenally successful Mustang in the 1960s and has long hungered to be the first non-Ford to head the company since its founding in 1903. But his stiletto style and jungle-fighting tactics have earned him many enemies...