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FORD TIMES
April, 1974, Vol. 67, No. 4
CONTENTS
2 THE THREE FACES OF ANNAPOLIS
Hal Butler
9 SHRIMP BOAT JAMBOREE
William E. Pauli
14 SPIRITED LADIES OF '76
Thomas Fleming
18 SOME PLAIN TALK ABOUT CARS
L. A. lacocca
20 1974 FORD TIMES BUYER'S DIGEST
20-Ford: The Closer You Look, The Better We Look
23-Torino: A Really Solid Car
26-Gran Torino Elite: New Mid-Size Entry
27-Mustang II: The Right Car at the Right Time
30-Maverick: Economical Car for Families
32 Pinto: Basic, Dependable Little Car
34-Thunderbird: Put Some Thunder in Your Life
36-Station Wagons: Eight Versatile Models
39-Better Idea Options for the '74s
42-Steel-Belted Radial Tires.
43 IT'S NO DISGRACE TO BE A RAT
George Heinold
48 TENNIS, EVERYONE?
52 DELTA QUEEN
Paul Hendrickson
60 Favorite Recipes from Famous Restaurants
64 Letters
COVER-The gray squirrel, done in sculptural relief
by Larry Hayden, provides an eye-appealing three-
dimensional appearance. For related story, see "It's No
Disgrace To Be A Rat," by George Heinold, on page 43.
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There
Fast and furious action marks a tennis tournament at Hilton Head
was a time when the phrase
"Tennis, anyone?" had faintly
comic overtones. It is thought to
have been spoken first in a movie of
the 1940s by Humphrey Bogart
who came bounding through the
French doors into a living room
with a racquet in his hand. The re-
Billie Jean King poised for a shot
mark made the audience laugh.
Tennis was a game almost exclu-
sively for the rich, and the laugh
expressed the audience's resentment
of snobbery.
Well, those days are gone. Tennis
has shucked off class distinctions. It
is played by everyone. It is played
almost 24 hours a day, summer and
winter, indoors and out, in the coun-
try, on top of big-city skyscrapers-
and it is gaining adherents at a re-
markable rate. Although exact fig-
ures don't exist, there are thought
to be about 13,500,000 tennis play-
ers in the country, with the number
growing by half a million a year.
Moreover, when the costs of clothes,
equipment and courts are added up,
it is a half-billion-dollar-a-year busi-
ness.
There seems to be several reasons
for the tennis boom. One is our
national passion for physical fitness.
This can be met in other ways, of
course, but solo exercise, like jogging
or biking, can be a bore, and golf is
getting very expensive. Many golf
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It's No Disgrace To Be A Rat
Alas, the gray squirrel is a rodent,
but he's really very lovable
by George Heinold
F ENGLAND'S WARS of empire were
won on the playing fields of Eton,
America's early wars were won in
paintings by Larry Hayden
our hardwood groves. It was in our
hardwood groves that the gray squir-
rel was hunted. This nimble member
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The Three Faces of Annapolis
Its Naval Academy, its closeness to the sea,
and its touch of Colonial history make this town
unique...and irresistible
IS COMMONPLACE in this country for old historic towns to
I modernize and, as a result, lose their original identity. Vener-
able buildings are ruthlessly torn down and replaced with box-
like skyscrapers, and bulldozers level a lot of nice things that
ought to be left standing. Then, after a period of time, people
by Hal Butler
paintings by Dick Stover
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discover what they have lost and try to replace it by a process
known as restoration.
Annapolis, Maryland, has not made this mistake. Its original
Colonial heritage is still intact. The 17th and 18th century homes-
considered some of the finest examples of Georgian architecture in
the country-not only still stand but they are lived in. Annapolis,
in other words, has been preserved, not restored, and it is this
difference that sets the city apart as an attraction for tourists.
Before we delve into the what-to-see information on Annapolis,
a short history lesson is useful. Annapolis, 35 miles east of Washing-
ton, D.C., lies on the south shore of the Severn River which flows
into Chesapeake Bay. It was settled in 1649 by Puritans fleeing the
religious intolerance of Sir William Berkeley, Governor of Virginia.
The tiny community was first named Providence and later, Anne
Arundel Town, after the wife of the second Lord Baltimore. Forty-
Forest of masts at City Harbor testifies to Annapolis' love of sailing
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SOMEWHERE IN THE GEOGRAPHY of
the American heart lie Huck Finn
and his river. Even now, after we've
split the atom and hit golf balls on
the moon, the great brown god
called the Mississippi and the run-
away boy on a raft still beckon us.
To drift past St. Looey at dawn, to
see Memphis glowing soft at sunset,
to spy the first lights of New Or-
leans as you round 12-Mile Point-
these have ever been the promise of
Huck's river.
Today, the dream lives on in a
creaking steamboat called the Delta
Queen. The last of her kind in a tra-
dition that goes back 160 years, the
aging sternwheeler has been kept
afloat by three acts of Congress
which each time have exempted her
from fireproof construction stan-
dards established by the Safety at
Sea Law. One doubts that she will
ever die. She has come to be a
metaphor for rejuvenation, a sym-
bol of the rites of spring itself, and
probably not even Congress can
defeat that kind of spirit.
Last spring, just as crepe myrtle
bushes blossomed in every color
from white to watermelon, the Delta
Queen booked a full ship from
Memphis down to the Crescent City.
She cast off at dusk amid calliope
music and a blur of red neon atop
the Hotel Peabody on the bluffs of
Memphis. Three nights later, she
glided under the Huey Long Bridge
as smoothly as a stick of butter on
a hot griddle, then tied up opposite
the French Quarter while lovers
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