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Dates: during 1970-1979
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DIED. John D. Rockefeller 3rd, 72, philanthropist and patron of the arts, and the eldest of the five sons of Oil Tycoon John D. Rockefeller Jr.; in a car crash near the family's estate in Pocantico Hills, N.Y. (see NATION...
...outspoken, fashionably dressed in European worsteds and as obviously at ease in a barroom throbbing with used-Ford salesmen as in a hearing room full of Senators. If humans can be said to have automotive analogues, lacocca suggests nothing so much as a Ford Mustang, that stylish-yet-democratic car whose creation is perhaps lacocca's greatest triumph...
Lido Anthony lacocca was born in Allentown, Pa., into what can be described as a Ford family. His father drove a Model T, launched one of the nation's earliest rent-a-car agencies, made and lost several pre-Depression fortunes by renting Fords and trading in local real estate. Young Lido decided he wanted to enter the auto business, preferably with Ford. He got an engineering degree at nearby Lehigh University, signed on with Ford as a trainee, earned a master's in engineering at Princeton and then surprised Ford recruiters by rejecting a quiet career...
...real question in the dispute is whether either of the two major tests has much practical value. Besides the steering-wheel test, there was also the avoidance-maneuver test, in which the cars were driven between markers to see how quickly they could swerve to dodge an obstacle without lurching out of control. When the test is performed with the Omni and Horizon, the cars do not begin to veer until speeds approaching 60 m.p.h. Many full-size sedans will do so at much lower speeds. In fact, every car on the highway will...
...Blyth Eastman Dillon to owner of a multimillion-dollar real estate investment company. Says he: "I believe in meritocracy. Any place where you can be fired in 20 minutes is a great place." Adds Swiss-born Pierre Honegger, 34, a former journalist who three years ago bought a foreign-car dealership in Princeton, N.J., and has tripled its sales: "If you work hard and have a good idea, you have a much bigger reward than in Europe, where everything is superorganized, and traditional business has cornered all the markets...