Word: fords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...campaign, the treaty will be formally submitted to the Senate in early July. The SALT struggle will be a major test of Jimmy Carter's ability as a national leader. Even now his personal prestige could hardly be more completely on the line. He phoned Richard Nixon, Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger last week, offering them extensive private briefings on the accord. (So far, none of these Republican notables has offered to join the pro-treaty drive.) On the morning that the U.S.-Soviet agreement was announced, Carter was up at dawn to sign letters to all 100 Senators...
...Ford Bravos and battles at Henry II's last annual meeting...
...Next year, you'll find me in the audience." So said a smiling Henry Ford II last week at the annual meeting of the huge auto empire attended by 2,850 Ford Motor Co. stockholders in Detroit's jampacked Henry and Edsel Ford Auditorium. As expected, Ford, 61, said that as of Oct. 1 he would step down as chief executive of the world's second largest auto company, which last year had sales of $43 billion. His successor, he added, would be the company's president, Philip Caldwell, 59, the first non-Ford ever...
...last family-dominated corporate giants will be entering a new period in which its future course will be steered by professional managers. Caldwell, a reticent Harvard Business School graduate, joined the company in 1953. Like many of the company's top executives, he came up through Ford's European operations. But just how much power Ford intends to give up remains open to question, since he also declared last week that he will remain the company's board chairman for an "indeterminate" period...
Doubtless Ford does not want to step down entirely until he has resolved the legal and family tangles that have swirled up around him. The sometimes raucous annual meeting brought together most of the chief protagonists in these dramas. There was, for instance, Henry's rebellious nephew Benson Ford, 29, who was in Detroit not only for the meeting but also to push a lawsuit that is part of his fight to elbow his way onto the Ford board. Also present was Henry's only son Edsel, 30, who is assistant managing director of the company...