Word: mustangers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great Hunt. The mustang, which helped tame the West, is facing extinction for obvious reasons: it long ago became outmoded by trains, automobiles and farm machinery. Not worth preserving as game for hunters because it is too easy to track and kill, and not worth preserving for domestic use because it is too wild, stupid and inbred (according to some ranchers), the mustang has long been rounded up and "rendered"-a euphemism for slaughtered-by various entrepreneurs. At first the horse carcasses were valued only as a source of glue, clothing and violin bowstrings. But by 1945, industry recognized that...
Although unable to best his Bud Moore Mustang teammate, Follmer, Gregg did beat by a comfortable margin third place Javelin mounted Peter Revson, who earlier in the weekend finished second at the Indianapolis 500. In fourth position when the checkered flag fell was veteran sports car driver Bob Tullius in a 1964 Pontiac GTO. This amazing vehicle had 80,000 miles on it as a street car, before being converted to racing...
Much more interesting than Kaiser's theories is his portrait of Sirhan, the strange little Rosicrucian enthusiast who was adept at automatic writing and obsessed with buying a Mustang. For anyone who valued Robert Kennedy, it is impossibly sad to hear Sirhan telling Kaiser: "As far as for me to have satisfied myself with Kennedy, I think all I would have needed to do was just to give him a good punch in the nose at that Ambassador. I think that would have satisfied me." Lance Morrow
...lacocca thought he had it made. After slogging his way up from sales trainee to vice president at age 36, he masterminded Ford Motor Co.'s happy successes with the Mustang and the Maverick. So lacocca figured that he was a cinch to take over the president's chair when Arjay Miller stepped down three years ago. But then a gray-haired 55-year-old named Semon E. Knudsen got passed over for his dad's old job as president of General Motors. Henry Ford II snapped up Knudsen for the Ford job and let lacocca wait...
...When the work piles up, he sometimes sleeps in a bedroom that is part of his twelfth-floor office suite. All major questions, suggestions, ideas and issues are brought to him for approval. He has approved that symbol of corporate blunder, the Edsel, as well as the Mustang and Maverick, two of the bestselling new U.S. cars of recent years. Those cars have given Ford Motor the reputation of being the innovator in the industry. The chairman watches everything. Once an executive recommended that the company spend $20 million on a weekly TV series on the basis of its audience...