Word: motorizer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...morning, a chauffeur-driven Ford Motor Co. car pulled up in front of the Detroit-Leland Hotel, picked up the Indian visitor, and whisked him off to a tour of Ford's sprawling River Rouge plant, then on to United Auto Workers Local 600. "I've been driving for Ford for 23 years." the chauffeur candidly admitted to his passenger. "But this is the first time I've ever taken anyone to a union hall...
...debut of Charlotte Ford, older daughter of Henry Ford II, has often been called "the party of the century." But last week, after the motor company board chairman laid on another successful gala, the title was in doubt. The latest refulgent debutante: Charlotte's sister, Anne Ford, 18. Paris Decorator Jacques Frank spent more than a year turning the Fords' Grosse Pointe Farms estate into a Versailles-like setting for the familiar blueblood-boiling beat of Bandleader Meyer Davis. And not even an hours-long downpour-which soaked through the turquoise-colored roof of the vast pavilion...
Once that's accomplished, Elvis turns out to be an author possessed by-as Clifford Odets, who wrote the film, puts it-"beauty and power and excitement." Hope and Elvis motor up to the state university to bag a scholarship from the friendly old white-haired English professor. On the way back it rains, and, perhaps a bit too cautiously heedful of the fact that the car has bald tires, they take lodging (separate rooms, of course) at a motel. But love blooms through the plasterboard, and some lowlife spreads the news. Scandal breaks loose. Elvis sings several mournful...
...more effective than the low volume would indicate. This is because humming is a "purer" tone. "When a person hums, he can blot out most of the sounds of speech," Ostwald reports. "Many hum to themselves while concentrating on tasks, particularly if these involve abstract thinking or fine motor skills...
...Clayton & Co. Chairman Lamar Fleming Jr.; Under Secretary of the Treasury Henry H. Fowler; Federated Department Stores Chairman Fred Lazarus Jr.; Chase Manhattan Bank President David Rockefeller; A.F.L.-C.I.O. Research Director Stanley Ruttenberg; American Farm Bureau Federation President Charles B. Shuman; Bank of America Chairman Jesse W. Tapp; Ford Motor Co. Finance Committee Chairman Theodore O. Yntema...