Word: dearborn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...bloodstream riches of dearborn F. Parker, 51, a food processing supervisor, are a byproduct of disease. Last spring Parker reported to Fort Worth's Carter Blood Center complaining of weakness. Physicians found that he had hemochromatosis-a rare condition caused by excessive iron absorption through the intestines into the blood. Some of the iron had deposited in Parker's liver and pancreas, contributing to cirrhosis and a mild case of diabetes...
...first Henry Ford, unlike his grandson, might have thought scholarly Robert McNamara, president of the Ford Motor Co., an odd choice to be top man in either Dearborn or the Pentagon. San Francisco-born, Bob McNamara was a sophomore Phi Beta Kappa at the University of California. He went on to Harvard Business School for a master's degree, taught there for three years after working briefly for the accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse & Co. Although 4-F (eye trouble) during World War II, McNamara wangled a captain's commission in the Army Air Forces, eventually joined...
Even within the Ford hierarchy, businesslike Bob McNamara was to many little more than an awesome name. Up daily at 6, he was at his desk in Dearborn no later than 7:30, seldom left before 6. He rarely attended the hail-fellow parties other automen love, even more rarely invited the brass to his home-a modest, $50,000 English Tudor house near the University of Michigan campus in Ann Arbor, far from the mansions of most other auto executives in Bloomfield Hills and Grosse Pointe. An ardent mountain climber, McNamara reads widely and well (current choices: The Phenomenon...
...ROBERT A. TAUB Dearborn, Mich...
Though his $400,000-plus annual compensation as Ford president will be more than he might have made in 30 years of teaching, McNamara still has a liking for the academic life. He lives in Ann Arbor, 38 miles from the Ford Co.'s Dearborn headquarters, with his wife Margaret and three children, because it is a university town. He frequently test-drives a competitor's car on his commute to Ann Arbor. Recently, in a competing car, he was once more reminded of quality. The car stalled in a rainstorm. It took McNamara, soaking wet, three hitchhikes...