Word: motorized
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Whatever his virtues as U.N. Ambassador, the former Georgia Congressman has displayed an almost arrogant carelessness in his statements-so much so that State Department officials have tagged him "Motor Mouth." Young, 45, had barely been sworn in when he said that Fidel Castro's Cuban mercenaries "bring a certain stability to Angola." That was only a warmup. There were bloopers about sending U.S. troops to Rhodesia, about Britain having almost "invented racism," about Arab attitudes toward Israelis being akin to Ku Klux Klan attitudes toward blacks. Soon the State Department found itself working almost full time to clarify...
Last week "Motor Mouth" was in overdrive. First he said that Americans should not get "all paranoid" about "a few Communists [in Africa], even a few thousand Communists." Then, asked if he thought the South African government was "illegitimate," he replied with a breezy "Yeah." In Pretoria, the U.S. ambassador was immediately summoned for an explanation. In Washington, a State Department spokesman formally repudiated the remark...
Like his grandfather, Henry Ford II is not a man to share power. As he often reminds his subordinates, "My name is on the building" of the Ford Motor Co. headquarters in Dearborn, Mich. Still, Chairman Henry, who will turn 60 in September, is in something less than the best of health (he has had heart trouble) and cannot readily sight anyone bearing the family name to take over the running of the world's second-largest automaker. So, last week he announced that he will be joined in a three-man "office of the chief executive...
...sister and two brothers have shown little interest. That leaves Son Edsel, 28, now a Ford executive in the Boston area. But Henry says that Edsel is "a good ten years away" from even a vice presidency. Reminded that he himself was 28 when he took over Ford Motor in 1945, Henry grinned and observed, "Times have changed...
...marketed by the Itasca division of Winnebago Industries, Inc., the Forest City, Iowa, motor-home makers...