Curating History
On This Date In 1964, Ford Unveils The Mustang

At first, it was known only as the T-5- a coded abstraction with no meaning outside the four windowless walls of a room in Dearborn, Mich.  Then it became the Turino, and perhaps 500 people knew what that meant.  This week, it is the Mustang; and Americans will have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to avoid the name.

Newsweek  April 20, 1964

On This Date In 1964, Ford Unveils The Mustang

At first, it was known only as the T-5- a coded abstraction with no meaning outside the four windowless walls of a room in Dearborn, Mich.  Then it became the Turino, and perhaps 500 people knew what that meant.  This week, it is the Mustang; and Americans will have to be deaf, dumb, and blind to avoid the name.

Newsweek  April 20, 1964



Margaret Thatcher  1925-2013

“What Britain needs,” Margaret Thatcher said during the campaign, “is an iron lady.” Not all Britons agreed that a strong-willed, somewhat shrill and prickly suburban matron of determinedly right-wing views was the ideal choice to restore their country to greatness. But last week, British voters selected the redoubtable Maggie Thatcher as their new Prime Minister and gave her a clean mandate to make good on her basic campaign promise: to halt Britain’s “slither and slide toward the socialist state.”

Newsweek  May 14, 1979

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