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...different industries. If, as I believe, the automobile is the product of the century, we could easily have filled the list with the names of famous automakers, including Alfred P. Sloan, Charles Kettering and William Durant (all from General Motors), Walter Chrysler, Ferdinand Porsche (Porsche and Volkswagen), Ransom Olds, Clement Studebaker and the Dodge brothers. Henry J. Kaiser not only built cars but also played a key role in shipbuilding, construction, housing and hospitals. In the end, however, we settled on Henry Ford because his individual genius was so responsible for automating the assembly line and building the industry...
...first public hearing on the Duke-Durham Regional merger, held in a black church, city councilman Howard Clement, an African American, voiced a widely shared concern when he stood up and asked, "Can we trust Duke?" It was, and is, the big question, Clement believes, "and the jury is still...
...people of color in Durham, Duke is more than just the hospital; it is "a white university hidebound by Southern tradition," as Clement puts it. Like most members of the town's minority community, Clement never wanted to go to Duke Hospital because it was viewed as a place where "they experimented on you." In 1968, when he was badly bruised in a head-on car collision, Clement screamed at the ambulance driver, "Don't take me to Duke! I don't want to go to Duke...
...sale of the uranium ore. For some Navajo landowners that could translate into more than $1 million a year--a nice paycheck anywhere, but especially in a region with double-digit unemployment and an average annual income of less than $10,000. Hydro Resources president Richard Clement Jr. says his company will eventually employ about 150 local workers to develop the site, one of the two largest beds of untapped uranium...
...Clement Leslie says that while he and hiswife still have reservations about the careertheir son has chosen, they understand his passion...