Word: detroits
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tipped off agents about a bomb shortly before it went off at a Birmingham church, killing four young black girls in 1963. His testimony sent two Klansmen to prison in connection with the murder near Selma, Ala., of Viola Liuzzo, a white civil rights activist from Detroit, in 1965. Then, to protect Rowe from Klansmen's revenge, the Justice Department gave him a different identity and helped him make a new life at an undisclosed location in the Southeast...
...Stanford Smith, chief executive of International Paper Co. The talks came to nothing. lacocca's role at Ford was reduced still further only a month ago when Ford expanded the office of the chief executive to include his brother William Clay Ford, 53, owner of the Detroit Lions football team. At the time the internal structure of the office was modified so that lacocca could no longer report to the chairman at all but instead had to deal through Caldwell...
...years as a salesman, lacocca sold so many cars that Ford Vice President Robert McNamara brought him to Detroit as marketing director for Ford trucks. In 1960, at the precocious age of 36, lacocca attained what was at one time his life's goal, a Ford vice presidency (in charge of the Ford Division). It was not a complete triumph; his plan had been to be there by age 35. "He had a schedule for himself as to what amount of money he would like to be making," his wife Mary once said. "Like maybe in five years...
Though a millionaire several times over by now, he lives with his wife and younger daughter (their other daughter is at college in the East) in a comparatively modest 13-room Colonial home in suburban Bloomfield Hills, and is active in Detroit area civic and charitable groups. He likes jazz and Big Band music, but has no hobbies. His close friends tend to come from outside the auto industry, and he has made a point of avoiding the social circles of "Mister Ford," as lacocca and other Ford executives respectfully call their ruler. lacocca once explained...
Generally, though, the first days settle into exciting weeks and rewarding months, and the most tentative of new citizens begins to sound like a charter member of the D.A.R. Ask David John Bickerstaff, 32, a British automotive engineer who moved to Detroit in 1973, owns a four-bedroom home with swimming pool and a vacation cottage in northern Michigan. "When I meet a cynical guy in the U.S.," says Bickerstaff, "I tell him: 'Why don't you go to England and live? You'll come back a happy American.' " -Michael Demarest