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...secretary, Karen Liable could type "four-barrel carburetor," but she certainly did not know what it did or even looked like. For precisely that reason, she was picked to leave her desk at the Ford Motor Co. last week, don coveralls, and approach a waiting Pinto, the 2,000-lb. subcompact that Ford will put on sale Sept. 11. Her mission: to perform many of the adjustments described in the owner's manual, The Happy Pinto -and How to Keep It That Way. If Karen failed, Ford officials said, the manual would be deemed a failure, and would have...
Swing to Simplicity. By making such simple, basic machines, the automakers have decided to try to beat Volkswagen, Toyota and Fiat at their own game. The Vega has only 1,231 parts, the Pinto 1,600. By comparison, a standard two-door Impala has 3,500 parts and a Lincoln Continental 9,000. Partly because big U.S. cars are so full of complicated tubes, wiring and equipment, which mechanics call "plumbing and spaghetti," even easy repair jobs can cost great amounts of money. Mechanics' hourly pay has increased from about $3.78 in 1966 to $5 today. This autumn Ford...
...promote the Pinto, Ford is also offering buyers a simple, key-shaped tool that it claims serves 27 purposes, from measuring the gap between electrodes on a spark plug to stripping wire and turning regular and Phillips screws. Not to be outdone, G.M. suggests that, with its illustrated and simplified manual, the Vega owner will need only a few tools: wrench, screwdriver, coat hanger, garden hose and-to replace transmission and rear-axle fluids-a turkey baster...
...Dorchester and Winthrop House (Chemistry); Peter C. Perdue, of Port Washington, N. Y. and Dunster House (History): George T. Perry. of Brewton, Ala., and Dunster House (History): Woody N. Peterson of Canton, O., and Leverett House (English): Henry C. Pinkham, of Bordeaux, France and Lowell House (Mathematics): John A, Pinto, of Rome, Italy and Adams House (Fine Arts): Alan M. Polinsky, of Clayton, Mo., and Lowell House (Economies): Angel M. Rabasa of Miami, Fla., and Dunster House (History): John C. Reitz, of Ann Arbor. Mich., and Lowell House (German Literature): David Riemer, of Milwaukee, Wise., and Winthrop House (History...
...tone of the session by saying, "We have, since May 4, been dealing with a new phenomenon-student opinion too wide and too serious to be dismissed as 'a few radicals.' " The House members had swallowed that without difficulty-and they applauded heartily when Undergraduate Pinto observed, "A society that hates its youth has no future...