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...alleged deficiencies (to date, G.M. has won two such suits, lost one, and settled one out of court). Angered by Nader's charges, some General Motors executives decided to counterattack. The corporation retained a Washington law firm, which in turn paid out $6,700 to hire Vincent Gillen, a onetime FBI agent turned private detective with headquarters in Manhattan. Gillen sent his agents a frank letter about what they were supposed to try to accomplish. "Our job," he wrote, "is to check Nader's life and current activities, to determine what makes him tick, such as his real...
Under the pretense of making a routine "pre-employment investigation" of Nader, Gillen and agents made contact with almost 60 of his friends and relatives, dug persistently into his personal affairs. Nader's parents were Lebanese immigrants; the detectives looked for signs of antiSemitism. They questioned why a 32-year-old man with adequate means should still be unmarried. Nader charged, and Gillen denied, that two attempts had been made to put him into compromising positions with lissome girls. Nader said that one girl approached him in a drugstore, invited him for no apparent reason to come...
...that Britons would continue to hold most of the jobs. They do, but no longer the key ones. Even at middle management levels, Americans are now responsible for engineering, styling, production, operating budgets and capital spending. Ford's board remains narrowly British by 7-6, but Stanley J. Gillen, an American, succeeded a Briton as managing director in July. In the past year, three directors and a dozen other British executives, all under 50, have quit Ford because they saw no future in it. In the shops, workers increasingly blame "the Americans" for anything that goes wrong...
...independent Players is a dramatic organization run by Harvard students, but unconnected with the College. It was formed less than a month ago by Victor N. Claman '58, Robert R. Evans '59, Barry Bartle '59, James R. Gillen '59, and several others. If this production is well received, the groups intends to give one or more plays a year here...
Captain Al Gordon, recovered from his ankle injury, should again lead the team in the 440. Other standouts are Dave Rosenthal, who won there events against Penn, Sandy Dodge, who won both dashes, distance men Bill Gillen and Jim Schlaeppi, and John DeKiewiet in the discus and high jump. The Yardlings will be lacking aces Joel Landau, and Carl Pescosolido...