IALA also received support from such prestigious groups as the Carnegie Corporation, the Ford Foundation, the Research Corporation, and the Rockefeller Foundation.

Gerald Ford was the first Vice President selected by this method, after the resignation of Vice President Spiro Agnew in 1973 ; after succeeding to the Presidency, Ford nominated Nelson Rockefeller as Vice President.

** U. S. President Gerald Ford appoints Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to head a special commission looking into alleged domestic abuses by the CIA.

The second time was when Ford, after becoming President upon Nixon's resignation, chose Nelson Rockefeller ( originally Agnew's mentor in the moderate wing of the Republican Party ) to succeed him as Vice President.

Bob Dole ( far left ) at the 1976 Republican National Convention in Kansas City with ( from left ) Nancy Reagan, Ronald Reagan, President Gerald Ford, Vice President Nelson Rockefeller, Susan Ford and Betty Ford

On August 20, 1974, after having previously considered Melvin R. Laird and George H. W. Bush, President Ford nominated former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller to succeed him as Vice President.

In 1960, the Government of the Republic of the Philippines with Ford and Rockefeller Foundations established IRRI ( International Rice Research Institute ).

Following Richard Nixon's resignation as President, Laird was reported to be the first choice of successor Gerald Ford to be nominated Vice President, a position ultimately filled by Nelson Rockefeller.

Ford became as much of a popular hero as Rockefeller had been a villain.

Foundations of the American Century: The Ford, Carnegie, and Rockefeller Foundations in the Rise of American Power ( Columbia University Press ; 2012 ) 356 pages

* Edward H Berman The Ideology of Philanthropy: The influence of the Carnegie, Ford, and Rockefeller foundations on American foreign policy, State University of New York Press, 1983.

Collaboration of the Rockefeller, Ford and Carnegie Foundations with the Council on Foreign Relations.

In the mid 1920s, he was the third highest income tax payer in the US behind only John D. Rockefeller and Henry Ford.

In the 20th century American philanthropy matured, with the development of very large private foundations created by titans of industry — Rockefeller, Ford, Carnegie, et al .— and later in the century with the professionalization of the field led and funded by those great foundations.

After former New York Governor Nelson Rockefeller was nominated by Ford, then confirmed and sworn into office as Vice President in December, the issue of Albert's presidential succession was finally buried.

Funding for this autonomous international research training institute developed from the Cooperative Wheat Research Production Program was undertaken jointly by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations and the Mexican government.

Borlaug's work with wheat led to the development of high-yield semi-dwarf indica and japonica rice cultivars at the International Rice Research Institute, started by the Ford and Rockefeller Foundations, and at China's Hunan Rice Research Institute.

Nelson and Winthrop Rockefeller later became state governors ; Nelson went on to become Vice President of the United States under Gerald Ford.

He secured grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and the Ford Foundation that put the Institution on a strong financial basis.

Her son and his grandson Nelson Aldrich Rockefeller, served as Vice President of the United States under Gerald Ford.

It is well to bear in mind that gasoline will cost from $.80 to $.90 for the equivalent of a United States gallon and while you might prefer a familiar Ford, Chevrolet or even a Cadillac, which are available in some countries, it is probably wiser to choose the smaller European makes which average thirty, thirty-five and even forty miles to the gallon.

However, Dr Susan Ford has argued quite convincingly that callitrichids are actually a dwarfed lineage.

The American automaker Ford Motor Company has an assembly plant located on the South Side, and most of the facilities of the Port of Chicago are here.

Iron crankshafts are today mostly found in cheaper production engines ( such as those found in the Ford Focus diesel engines ) where the loads are lower.

Flockhart and Ford are raising a son, Liam, whom Flockhart adopted as an infant on January 11, 2001.

" That same year, then-U. S. President Gerald Ford acknowledged the stature of the comic strip, telling the Radio and Television Correspondents ’ Association at their annual dinner, " There are only three major vehicles to keep us informed as to what is going on in Washington: the electronic media, the print media, and Doonesbury, not necessarily in that order.

* 1980 – Four U. S. nuns and churchwomen, Ita Ford, Maura Clarke, Jean Donovan, and Dorothy Kazel, are murdered by a death squad in El Salvador.

They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference ( NFC ) in the National Football League ( NFL ), and play their home games at Ford Field in Downtown Detroit.

The two men are her boyfriend Rockliffe Fellowes and her father Ford Serling, with Leslie Fenton playing the greedy rich man whom she agrees to live with in order to get away from her father and lover.

In Europe, Mercedes-Benz, Daimler, Jaguar, Opel, Ford, Vauxhall Motors and Volvo are or were common contemporary bases, and in the past even used Rolls-Royce cars were converted, though their cost is generally considered prohibitive.

These early Jeeps are commonly referred to as " flatfenders " because their front fenders were flat across the front, the same as their military precedents, the Willys MB and identical Ford GPW models.

Among its more famous critics are the evolutionary biologists Richard Dawkins, Ford Doolittle, and Stephen Jay Gould – notable, given the diversity of this trio's views on other scientific matters.

Both weapons are in the Tower of London Armoury and Horace Ford writing in 1887 estimated them to have a draw force of 280 to 320 N ( 65 to 70 lbf ).

Examples of mini MPVs are the Citroën C3 Picasso, Fiat Idea, Ford B-Max, Toyota bB and Nissan Cube.

Whilst some MUVs might be replicas of European MPVs ( such as the European Ford Fusion ) or American-style minivans ( like the Toyota Innova ), in some cases MUVs are similar to SUVs ( such as the Chevrolet Tavera ).

The area is mostly built up except for a small park on Moor View Terrace however Central Park and Ford Park Cemetery are nearby.

There are quite a few churches dedicated to St. Boniface in the United Kingdom: Bunbury, Cheshire ; Chandler's Ford and Southampton Hampshire ; Adler Street, London ; Papa Westray, Orkney ; St Budeaux, Plymouth ( now demolished ); Bonchurch, Isle of Wight ; Cullompton, Devon.

A downsized version of the Formula One Stock Car Racing, these cars are powered by the 2 litre Ford ' Pinto ' engine.

These cars are also powered by the 2 litre Ford ' Pinto ' engine.

Broadcasters Russ Hodges, Lon Simmons, and Jon Miller are permanently honored in the Hall's " Scribes & Mikemen " exhibit as a result of winning the Ford C. Frick Award in 1980, 2004, and 2010 respectively.

Most trilogies are works of fiction involving the same characters or setting, such as The Deptford Trilogy of novels by Robertson Davies or The Godfather films of Francis Ford Coppola, " " The Shiva Trilogy " by Amish Tripathi.

Some UU ministers, such as the Reverend James Ishmael Ford, are also ordained Zen teachers.

The only British marques currently using a V12 configuration are Aston Martin — whose Cosworth-developed engine was authorized during the company's ownership by Ford Motor Company — and Rolls-Royce.