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...keeps dossiers on more than 1,000 Ford Motor executives, reaching down through seven layers of management; each dossier lists the man's history, evaluation by superior and estimate of promotion prospects. A calendar shows where each of 36 high executives will be every half-day for the next week. His memory for details and conversations is legendary. Ford Motor officers say that the chairman is forever reminding them if something they say does not tally with what they said three years earlier. Ford himself remarks: "My problem is, I'm told, that I get into too many details...
...sick-out" strikes, the Federal Aviation Administration investigated the controllers' attorney, F. Lee Bailey, and now claims-though no one at the FAA went so far as to talk to Bailey-that he is a lot sicker than the men he defended for staying home. In a dossier compiled for the FAA, Government psychiatrists labeled the famous criminal lawyer "dangerous" and "irresponsible." "He collects heads," said one. "He's a young rebel, a David. His role in life is to slay Goliaths." Bailey sprang to the counter-analysis. "General paranoia," he concluded. "If they said I was dangerous...
...National Assembly, which was in recess. For 80 hours, he held forth in the old Opera House, entertaining newsmen with Vietnamese beer, fruit and copies of his biography, and maintaining a steady anti-Thieu patter. "Did you hear?" Chau jeered at one point. "President Nixon has sent a dossier to the Senate asking for the lifting of Senator [George] McGovern's parliamentary immunity because he was in contact with the Communists in Paris." What did Chau think of his sentence? Thieu, he replied, "won't last 20 years-he's likely to last less than...
...dossier" idea was considered impractical; instead, the faculty has made provision this fall for students to receive detailed Academic Performance Reports (APR's) from professors in courses in which they are especially interested or which form part of their preparation for graduate school. These reports are similar to graduate school recommendation forms; students hope that the APR's will be more meaningful to them than hastily assigned grades...
...Bowl last year, and nothing he has done this year (57 receptions, 11 TDs) has diminished their interest. A hurdler on the track team, Gillette has speed, superb balance, and more moves than Joe Namath at a cocktail party. "He's tall, thin as a reed," says one dossier, "yet he can take a beating. He's got a long, effortless stride-satin-smooth." All that, plus an exceptionally good pair of hands, make the scouts report that "he's got the kind of assets that set coaches drooling...