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Taylor, who joined TIME four years ago, has previously been a finance and business reporter for the Detroit Free Press and the assistant news director for a Grand Rapids, Mich., TV station. These days, he is also a part-time university instructor, teaching a course at the Columbia Graduate School of Journalism that deals with reporting as literature. He covers everything from Daniel Defoe's A Journal of the Plague Year to works by Norman Mailer and Tom Wolfe...
Philadelphia 120, Detroit...
...public impact of Henry Ford II or Lee lacocca. Three years ago, when Roger B. Smith, a 5-ft. 9-in., red-haired man with a squeaky voice, moved into the walnut-veneered chairman's office on the 14th floor of the General Motors building in Detroit, he was expected to blend into the woodwork. Smith had joined GM as an accounting clerk in 1949, spent his entire career with the company and was unknown outside the automobile industry...
...size models such the Chevrolet Celebrity and Pontiac A6000. Production of big cars would be restricted to Buick, Oldsmobile and Cadillac. GM would continue to market cars under the present five names. Each part of the bifurcated company would still be larger than either Ford or Chrysler. Word around Detroit last week was that Chevrolet General Manager Robert Stempel, 50, will take over the small-car group, while Buick Boss Lloyd Reuss, 47, will head the large-car group...
That would give him the longest tenure as GM boss since the legendary Alfred Sloan. - By Alexander L. Taylor III. Reported by Paul A. Witteman/ Detroit...