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...appropriate at this point to write a little in defense of disco. Disco never got much of a press, expect from people like Time; Rolling Stone ran a disco issue at the insistence of publisher Jan Wenner, whom Jagger once described to Chet Flippo as "that cunt of a boss of yours," but it went over like a suckling pig at Passover. Rock critics have always worn their contempt for disco as a sort of cachet of superior taste, and it's always seemed more than a little unfair, particularly because: a) disco is the state...
...headed the second largest U.S. industrial corporation since 1974. During his tenure, GM moved aggressively to design and build Detroit's most successful line of fuel-efficient cars. Murphy will retire at the end of the year, when he reaches the company retirement age. Says GM's boss: "We can't sit back in the U.S. any more and say that we're the high and mighty who don't have to worry about what's going on in other areas. We used to look at the world as if this were our market...
...been chairman of Ford Motor Co. since the retirement of Henry Ford II last March. A 1942 graduate of the Harvard Business School, he has been with Ford for 27 years. During the early 1970s, Caldwell ran Ford's highly successful overseas operations. Says Ford's boss: "We cannot afford to let our basic industries atrophy, while we become more and more dependent on overseas sources of supply all the time. It just doesn't wash. It is essential that we get on with the business of not only retooling the auto industry but also retooling America...
Gomulka flirted briefly with liberalization after he was named party boss in 1956, but then clamped a repressive lid on the country. Initially Gierek delivered on many of his own early promises, allowing Poles freer access to Western cultural influences and more opportunity to travel abroad. "For the first few years, the quality of life improved markedly in Poland," recalls one Western diplomat who served in Warsaw. "He enjoyed a measure of support that transcended anything during the Gomulka years." But by the mid-1970s, things began finance sour under Gierek too, as the country went heavily into debt...
Another indication that News Editor Michael O'Neill aims to outclass the Post is his choice of a boss for Tonight: Clay...