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...AUDITORIUM AT THE CHRYSLER technology center in Auburn Hills, Michigan, was dense with emotion three years ago when Lee Iacocca attended the company's annual meeting for the last time as chairman of the board. A few months earlier he had agreed to step aside in favor of Robert Eaton, a former General Motors executive who was Iacocca's own choice to succeed him. Now here he was at 67, having brought the giant carmaker back from the edge of bankruptcy twice in 10 years, summing up a fabled career. Though he had lived every boy's dream of becoming...
...Eaton was in New York when he got news of the bid in a phone call from Kerkorian. To placate Kerkorian, he had already agreed in November to raise Chrysler's dividend and start a $1 billion stock-buyback program to increase the company's share price. But here was a move that left nothing to talk about. "I'm going to fight you on this," he told Kerkorian. Canceling a speech at the New York Auto Show, Eaton flew back to Detroit to huddle with the board. No sale, they announced late that night, especially since Kerkorian was planning...
...Their lavish, unsolicited $55 per share proposal -- more than 40 percent above yesterday's closing stock price -- would be the biggest U.S. corporate takeover since the $25 billion buyout of RJR Nabisco by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts in 1988. Today's surprise announcement boosted Chrysler stock and prompted Chairman Robert Eaton to scrap a scheduled New York auto show speech.TIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirtersays Chrysler is well positioned to fight a takeover because of its profitability, as well as Eaton's financial acumen. Nevertheless, McWhirter says the announcement sent shock waves through a U.S. industry that has never before been...
...yeah. Right. And I'm supposed to pay $60 so that I can make Shaq run around? For that much money, the final opponent in the game had better be John Starks. Or Mark Eaton. Or better yet, a three-armed Pat Riley throwing flaming grease balls...
...McCarthyites bashed [Harvard] terribly," recalls Eaton Professor of the Science of Government, Emeritus, Samuel H. Beer, an admitted "bitter foe of Marxism...