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...another two weeks, while Knudsen wound up his affairs at General Motors and Ford called a directors' meeting to approve his decision, the arrangements remained one of autodom's best-kept secrets. Ford shuffled able but colorless President Arjay Miller, 51, to the new post of vice chairman. As such, Miller will run Ford's finances, legal department, public relations, Washington staff and long-range planning. Knudsen, as chief operating officer, will not only control sales, product development and plant operations, but will also assume full command of the company when Chairman and Chief Executive Ford...
...best-kept secret in sport - outside of, possibly, Sandy Koufax's unlisted phone number. For twelve weeks, behind a continuing barrage of public name-calling, the U.S.'s two warring pro-football leagues had been quietly negotiating a peace. Last week came the announcement: the National and American leagues had agreed to 1) kiss and make up, 2) hold a common player draft, 3) stage an annual "world-championship" play-off game starting next winter, and 4) merge in 1970 into a single, 28-team league...
...Washington for defacing a Jewish building, and he served two years in jail in New York for inciting to riot. And all the time he never let his fellow Klansmen know that he was a Jew. Said Roy Frankhouser, Grand Dragon of the Pennsylvania Klan: "It was the best-kept secret since the atom bomb...
Tuohy's consternation was understandable. The papers contained facts and figures about one of the best-kept business secrets in years. The project was even given code names-Operation Thunderbolt and Big Deal-to preserve secrecy. During ten tense months of negotiation, the executives involved scratched out details in longhand so that not even confidential secretaries would know what was going on. Last week the secret was out-and it stunned the railroad industry, Wall Street and even Washington. Tuohy's C. & O. and the Norfolk & Western Railway announced that they planned not only to merge with each...
...world where celebrities can draw a breath in peace. But there is at least one newshawk among the chickens. Shadowing Holland's visiting Princess Irene, 24, a Madrid photographer followed her to a Roman Catholic church, where he watched her receiving Communion-and stumbled on the best-kept secret of the Dutch House of Orange. Sometime last year "after long and deep thinking," Irene, second in line to the throne, had converted to Catholicism. Queen Juliana and Prince Bernhard, said a hastily prepared royal communique, "fully backed the freedom of choice by their children," and her right...