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Around the horseshoe-shaped table in the board room on the twelfth floor of the Ford Motor Co. headquarters in Dearborn, Mich., last week, 18 normally staid directors gave out three loud hurrahs. The first was for Henry Ford II, who retired after nearly 35 years as the company's boss and was succeeded as chairman by Philip Caldwell, 60. The second was for Donald Petersen, 53, who replaced Caldwell as president. The third was for the automaker's acquittal that same day in Winamac, Ind., on unprecedented criminal charges of reckless homicide in the deaths of three...
...Ford headquarters in Dearborn, Henry Ford II greeted the verdict as "great, good news." The trial was, in fact, one of several legal actions that apparently had induced him to delay his retirement beyond last Oct. 1, when he would have preferred to leave. Earlier this year, for instance, the Justice Department informed the automaker that it had dropped an investigation into alleged bribery in 1975 of officials in Indonesia...
...qualifications that count. Says James Cameron, vice president of personnel for Levi Strauss in San Francisco: "If the rules have had any effect, it has been to make us better interviewers. Those questions we used to ask were really extraneous." Robert Stenberg, equal employment planning manager for Ford in Dearborn, Mich., agrees that the guidelines have "sharpened our sensitivities and helped us focus on the criteria critical to the proper selection of people...
...nearby Wayne State University with the help of her mother's Dodge Main paychecks. Now she works as a secretary to a local psychiatrist. Most of her high school classmates have left, she says: "They settled into a lower-middle-class life in places like Warren and Dearborn." A case of upward automobility, perhaps. As Boorstin said, "The mobility that brought the people here is also the kind of mobility that, in American history, carries them elsewhere." -Barrett Seaman
...crowd of scientists, industrialists and other celebrities will gather amid the historic buildings at Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Mich., to commemorate the hundredth anniversary of Edison's banishment of darkness. In Edison's laboratory-disassembled in Menlo Park, N.J., by his good friend Henry Ford, then crated and shipped to Dearborn along with seven railroad cars full of the clay soil on which it sat-the audience will watch a re-enactment of the scene. Madeline Edison Sloane, the inventor's great-granddaughter, will throw the switch that opened a new era. As the German historian Emil...