Word: forde
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...grandson of the founder of the Ford Motor Co., Henry Ford II bore one of the most powerful names in American business. He used it wisely to save the second largest U.S. automaker in its dark days after World War II. He used it arrogantly when he put down executives who dared to contradict him by reminding them, "My name is on the building...
During the 35 years that he ran the firm, Ford gathered around him men who became important leaders in their own right. Among them: Robert S. McNamara, Secretary of Defense under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson and later head of the World Bank; Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca; and Charles ("Tex") Thornton, who co-founded Litton Industries. Yet none of them ever claimed to understand the man they always addressed as Mr. Ford. When he died last week of complications from pneumonia in Detroit's Henry Ford Hospital, he was still unfathomable...
Almost untouchable on his corporate throne, Ford was perhaps the most secure executive in America. A biographer once told him that his book would give Ford the chance to set the record straight about many things. Snapped Ford: "Oh, let the fairy tales continue. Who gives a damn?" His most famous expression, which he borrowed from Benjamin Disraeli, the 19th century British Prime Minister: "Never complain. Never explain...
...grade competition." Rather, I emphasized the more general aspects of competitiveness at Harvard, among faculty as well as among students, at once burden, bravura, and benefit. Grade competition may well be higher at selective colleges with fewer non-academic arenas in which to seek distinction. David Riesman '31 Ford Professor of Social Sciences, emeritus
Thornburgh, who worked under Bork in the Justice Department from 1975 to 1977 in the Ford Administration, defended Bork as "a staunch believer in our Constitutional system" and predicted the judge "would be a distinguished member of the Supreme Court...