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...Bill Knudsen had worked for ten years at Ford, rising to production manager, before he quit in 1921 after Henry Ford I had rejected his advice to abandon the Model T and broaden Ford's one-product line. Moving shortly to General Motors as vice president of Chevrolet, Knudsen gave Chevrolet the pickup that put it ahead of Ford. His reward was G.M.'s presidency. "Today," said Henry Ford II, "the flow of history is reversed...
...Bunkie Knudsen cautiously allowed, "only time will tell" if he can reverse Chevrolet's lead. He likes to remember one of the few pieces of advice his father gave him: "In this business, the competition will bite you if you keep running; if you stand still, they will swallow you." Bunkie Knudsen has been mostly running ever since the day in 1927 when his father announced that he could have a new Chevrolet if he would stop by the plant. Bunkie, 14, found the car waiting-in several thousand pieces. "It took me a couple of months...
Cambridge police arrested two of the suspects Sunday afternoon after a three-mile chase that began in Harvard Square. Police driving through the Square recognized a black 1960 Chevrolet with swastikas painted on the windows that Pieper had said was used in the attack. After a high-speed chase up Concord Avenue, police caught the car and took the two men into custody after questioning them...
...Nitty-Gritty. G.M. is now trying to foster a similar attitude in its Chevrolet gear-and-axle plant on the fringe of one of Detroit's worst slums. Its solution: an eleven-member committee of overseers that does for the unmotivated unemployed what Alcoholics Anonymous does for the overly motivated drinker. When one of die newly hired slum dwellers misses the whistle on Monday morning, one of the eleven goes to his house, wakes him up, dresses him, gives him a cup of coffee-and delivers him at the factory gate...
...streets, stony-faced Indian women raced about on sleek Honda motorbikes, and stores were stocked with everything from American canned tomatoes to cold German beer. On down the road at Tarapoto, the local airport now handles more freight than any other in Peru except Lima. Along with Ford and Chevrolet agencies, Tarapoto has also sprouted no-parking signs and one-way streets...