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MARRIED. Henry Ford II, 63, retired Ford Motor Co. chairman; and Kathleen DuRoss, 40, ex-model and Detroit disco owner; he for the third time, she for the second; in Carson City, Nev. Earlier this year he divorced his second wife, Cristina Ford, giving her a reported $15 million settlement...
...autoworkers, along with the Ford Motor Co., also protested against foreign cars last week in hearings before the U.S. International Trade Commission. The union and Ford demanded that the number of Japanese imports, now running about 2 million a year, be cut by a third and that the tariff on foreign cars be increased from 2.9% to 20%. Representatives of the Federal Trade Commission said that higher tariffs or limits on Japanese imports would cost U.S. consumers at least $3 billion a year while preserving at most 69,000 jobs for American autoworkers. The FTC estimates that those steps would...
...spare aesthetic side are Radio On and Union City, two story films with rock references. Radio On (title signifying the primary mechanical function for properly operating a motor vehicle) was financed by Road Movies, the Wim Wenders film company. It comes as no surprise that the film is the British equivalent of the early Wenders movies, Alice in the Cities, Kings of the Road, and others. Punctuated by songs of David Bowie, Kraftwerk, Ian Dury, Lene Lovich and more, the black-and-white film follows the odyssey of a man in search of his brother's house, where an unexplained...
...Edward J. King and Lt. Gov. Thomas P. O'Neill III arrived by sea as well, but in separate motor launches. O'Neill drew cheers from his hometown crowd, but King was greeted by a volley of boos and hisses as he stepped ashore...
There is a horrible screeching and the hot stink of brake pads and burning tires. Heart pounding, the driver guns his motor, racing away from the barricade. But now another car pulls out of a dark side road to cut him off. Though half blinded by its headlights, he jams on the brakes again, and just as his car is shuddering to a stop, he slams it into reverse and guns the engine. Seconds later he takes his foot off the gas and turns the steering wheel hard. Tires screaming, the car spins around once more, but is again facing...