Word: thunderbirds
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...most agile, deft and eely politician in Southeast Asia's luxuriant political quagmire had been Thailand's steel-willed, soft-voiced Dictator Pibulsonggram. Pibul's favorite color is green, and he found it attractive in everything from U.S. dollars to neckties and the flashy Ford Thunderbird and Mercedes-Benz sports cars in which he liked to hot-rod it along Thailand's highways and byways. In the tinseled and temple-dotted capital of Bangkok, Westerners liked to dismiss Pibul as just another crooked politician. But he was much more than that...
...star rose in the West, he picked up a manager, secretaries, a red Thunderbird, a nightclub, a pet puma and a passion for yoga and Zen. He became the hottest gossip item in town, made front-page headlines when he smashed into a police captain's sister, was dubbed "TV's Bad Boy" by the columnists. Wrote one: "Don is taking a Rorschach inkblot test at Stanford to find out why he's so clever, amusing, successful and miserable." His own psychiatrist told him: "If I told you what's wrong with you, you would never...
...expected, the word brought an outraged howl from United Automobile Workers President Walter Reuther, who only a fortnight ago demanded an "anti-inflation" cut of $100 on 1958 cars (TIME, Sept. 2). Thunderbird Reuther, announcing an appeal to President Eisenhower "to exert his great persuasive charm" on the "irresponsibility" of the automakers: "You can increase wages and cut prices and make money if production is increased...
...with a startling new grille, dual headlights and enormous taillights running horizontally across the rear end of the car. To compete with Chevy's new engine, Ford will bring out a bigger (332 cu. in.) V-8 for its Fairlane series. Another big change: Ford's 1958 Thunderbird will jump into the family-car class with a new 113-in.-wheelbase model that has a back seat...
When news breaks, Reporter Pressman roars to the scene in the station's Ford Thunderbird or Chevrolet station wagon, both of which are equipped with telephone and recording equipment. "These give reporting a new dimension," says Pressman. "Local news broadcasting has suffered too long from slavish dependence on wire services. It has its own tremendous advantage of personalization and immediacy...