Word: thunderbirds
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thunderbird '64s included 3,058 on which a hard slam of the doors tripped loose the parking brake...
...program had scarcely started when investigators claimed that fully one-fourth of the youths drawing salaries came from families well above the poverty line. One indiscreet Youth Corps girl tooled to work in a 1965 Thunderbird, was asked to resign. In Macoupin County, Ill., Democratic officials turned the program into a patronage pie for their children until OEO found out and ordered 83 youngsters dropped. Protested one $9,000-a-year Democrat jobholder whose stepson was bounced: "He comes from a broken home, don't he? Anyway, to the victors goes the spoils. You know what I mean...
...drivers with belts use them all the time. Hundreds of irate motorists have complained to auto companies that the seat belts are uncomfortable to sit on, and frustrated drivers have used fists, hammers and screw drivers to bollix the red-flashing "Fasten Seat Belts" sign in the Ford Thunderbird. Psychologists reckon that people reject the seat belt because it is a fear-inducing reminder that accidents can happen, and it insults their ability to avoid them; many would rather indulge their foolhardy feelings of derring-do and invulnerability or their fatalistic instincts that "when it's my turn...
...girl who, Ghanaian police last week announced, was Nkrumah's mistress. Her name was Genoveva Marais, and she had been Kwame's playmate on weekends at his country estate. To keep her happy, he had given her a job at Ghana Television and bought her a red Thunderbird convertible...
...Europe, he sees world automaking as a pyramid, with expensive Rolls-Royces and Ferraris at the top, and U.S. and European mass-produced cars at the bottom. In between there is a growing and superbly profitable specialty market for flashy family sports cars like Ford's Thunderbird, Britain's Jaguar-and his own Alfa-Romeo...