Word: fords
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...although the Crimson is winless at 0-2 (a pair of late-game losses to MIT and Columbia), the squad looks as strong as any in the four years coach George Ford has been here...
...college football buddy, the one who remembered King in his days as a guard for Boston College in the late '40's. This last one held some promise, perhaps a quote that would bolster the ready-mixed comparison between two politicians bred in the offensive line. Just like Gerry Ford, right? The college buddy smiled, advertising a splendid monument of gold bridgework, and then began to chuckle. "Hell, no. Eddie played dirty, pal. He didn't screw around...
...presidential appointment confirms that Caldwell is Henry Ford's choice to be the ranking executive outside the family during the sensitive years of his transfer of power. The chairmanship of Ford Motor Co. is the last hereditary throne in American big business, and Henry II wants to make sure another Ford takes it over. Mindful of his own battle in the mid-1940s to wrest control of the company from Director Harry Bennett, who had gained sway over his aged grandfather Henry I, Henry II wants no willful executives who might contest a smooth succession...
...plan appears to be to hand over the title of chief executive when he reaches 63 in 1980; presumably the heir would be Caldwell. The chairmanship would go two years later to Brother William Clay Ford, now 53, the owner of the Detroit Lions; Henry brought him into the top management last June. But Henry II will remain a board member until he is 70, giving him time enough perhaps to execute the last flourish of his plan: to install Son Edsel, now 29 and assistant managing director of Ford of Australia, as chairman of his great-grandfather...
...coach George Ford said when it was all over, "It's tough when you play so well." LINESCORE Harvard 1 1 0 -- 2 Columbia...