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...cause of Ford's difficulties is Roy Cohn, the Manhattan lawyer. Since his days as a get-the-dirt investigator for Senator Joseph McCarthy, Cohn has built a deserved reputation as a maverick who relishes the pursuit of the powerful and is as ready to do his pursuing in newsprint as in the courts. For about a year, Cohn has been pressing a suit charging the motor company's boss with a variety of improprieties and seeking a still undetermined amount in damages. Last week Cohn got an assist from a fairly surprising quarter: Henry Ford...
...Cohn denies that he has any personal dislike of the company's chairman, but readily admits that "I'm anti-Establishment when it comes to people like Ford." With his great power, Cohn says, Henry Ford "represents an era of American business that supposedly went out of style with the turn of the century." Cohn's suit was brought on behalf of a handful of stockholders. The suit charges, among other things, that Henry Ford, who scarcely needs money: 1) pocketed $2 million from the "highest officials of the Philippines government" in exchange for building a stamping...
Ford has vehemently denied all the charges, and the suit has had little visible support from the firm's other 335,400 stockholders. At the annual meeting last year, Cohn attempted to shout accusations at Ford, but was frequently booed by other shareholders, many of them present or former company employees...
Last month the appellate division of the New York State Supreme Court threw out Cohn's suit, saying that it should have been brought in Michigan, where the company is headquartered. Cohn, who vows to pursue the suit, is pondering whether to appeal the decision. Mean while, he has been trying to keep the case alive in the press...
...would presumably intelligent women at the nation's most prestigious colleges aspire to notoriety as airbrushed sex objects? "The human body is an artwork in itself," says one aspirant, Brown Literature Major Cynthia Cohn. Adds Fellow Student Laurie Osmond, who has agreed to pose (fully clothed) for Chan: "It sounds crass, but you have to use your assets." Reports Chan: "They mention to me many times this is something to show to their grandchildren." That urge is apparently, widely felt. Some of Playboy's competitors now feature warts-and-all snapshots, usually taken by husband or boyfriend, sent...