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...clear last Monday morning as the Air Force's crack flying team soared above the Nevada desert, practicing its stunts, which have caused gasps at aerial shows for nearly 30 years. At exactly 9:55 a.m. the four Thunderbird pilots went into a "line-abreast loop," a maneuver in which they roar along, wingtip to wingtip, about 100 ft. off the ground, zoom up to 2,500 ft., loop backward into a dive at 400 m.p.h., then pull out when they get back to 100 ft. This time they did not pull out. One jet hit the ground...
Neither Ford nor Chrysler will be coming out this spring with a totally new line to match the GM J-cars, but both companies are introducing sporty versions of existing front-wheel-drive subcompacts. Ford has launched its first two-seater models since the 1957 Thunderbird: the Ford EXP and the Mercury LN7. The cars are smartly designed versions of the successful Ford Escort and Mercury Lynx, which were introduced last fall. Though they have a Government fuel-economy rating of 29 m.p.g. in city driving, the anemic performance of their 1.6-liter engine is hardly up to sports...
...plays the role of a Trappist monk who leaves the seclusion of the monastery to raise money to pay the mortgage. Along the way he encounters an unscrupulous traveling minister (Boyle), a "hooker with a heart of gold" (Lasser), and a corrupt, power-hungry TV evangelist named Armageddon T. Thunderbird (his initials are A.T.T...
...steel plant belches 24 hours a day, you can recognize the main street. In Lorain they call it Broadway, and some of the stores have been here 50 years or more, residents of the town long before Ford built the giant plant in 1966. Ford makes its "midsize" Thunderbird in Lorain--"ugliest cars they've ever built," says the mayor of Lorain as he sits atop the town's city hall, a white stucco and glass Emerald City in the midst of chipping brick and decaying concrete...
...what about the Thunderbird, "Blue Valentine...