Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...John Dean-like scapegoat who has none of Dean's shrewdness, or anybody else's either. But a running gag in which a globetrotting diplomatic nun (Melina Mercouri) periodically uses her briefcase radio-phone to coach Jackson in Kissingeresque Realpolitik falls rather flat. And the Gerald Ford figure is a football-playing nun (Anne Meara) who is always-guess what?-falling and bumping into things. That joke has long since been exhausted in TV sketches...
Like his grandfather, Henry Ford II is not a man to share power. As he often reminds his subordinates, "My name is on the building" of the Ford Motor Co. headquarters in Dearborn, Mich. Still, Chairman Henry, who will turn 60 in September, is in something less than the best of health (he has had heart trouble) and cannot readily sight anyone bearing the family name to take over the running of the world's second-largest automaker. So, last week he announced that he will be joined in a three-man "office of the chief executive...
Henry II said that the purpose of the triumvirate is to "provide a vehicle for some Ford to sit in that office when I retire at 65." That would be in 1982, but Henry insisted that he did not know who it would be. A sister and two brothers have shown little interest. That leaves Son Edsel, 28, now a Ford executive in the Boston area. But Henry says that Edsel is "a good ten years away" from even a vice presidency. Reminded that he himself was 28 when he took over Ford Motor in 1945, Henry grinned and observed...
...reorganization appears to enhance Caldwell's position in the interim and blunt lacocca's rise, at least for now. When Henry is in Washington touting his views on energy legislation and emission standards to Congress and President Carter (he was an early Carter supporter), Caldwell will run Ford Motor. Only if Caldwell is unavailable will lacocca take over. lacocca fathered the phenomenally successful Mustang in the 1960s and has long hungered to be the first non-Ford to head the company since its founding in 1903. But his stiletto style and jungle-fighting tactics have earned him many...
...Dotsie Holmes: "The legislators are all too willing to succumb to the hysterical group of women who go down to the statehouse screaming, 'Please don't make me equal!' " So successful was this kind of opposition in Florida that even last-minute telephone calls by Betty Ford, Vice President Walter Mondale, and Rosalynn and Jimmy Carter were of no avail. Florida's former Miss America, Anita Bryant, took time out from her campaign against gays to oppose the ERA; she was more successful than Valerie Harper, television's Rhoda, who campaigned...