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...knew was to hire people who understood the same system he did: other Ford executives. Some were called out of retirement, others were wooed away and enlisted with lacocca for the challenge of engineering a turnaround. Today the four top officers are Ford alumni: lacocca; Vice Chairman Gerald Greenwald; Harold Sperlich, president of North American automotive operations; and Executive Vice President of Finance Robert S. Miller. Of the 28 highest-ranking Chrysler executives, only four remain from pre-Iacocca days. Says Survivor Stephan Sharf, 62, executive vice president of manufacturing: "As the newest vice president when lacocca arrived, I followed...
...access to highly classified Allied documents, including U.S. atomic secrets. Tipped by another Soviet mole that they were suspected of spying, Maclean and Burgess escaped from England to the U.S.S.R. in 1951. "My God, Maclean knew everything!" exploded then Secretary of State Dean Acheson. A third Cambridge traitor, Harold ("Kim") Philby, remained under cover until 1963, when he too fled to the Soviet Union, the same year that Burgess died. In Moscow, Maclean had an innocuous job with a foreign policy think tank and, always a heavy drinker, died alone in his luxurious apartment. Said a Soviet official...
King's fate against the White political machine is of added interest to observers following Black congressman Harold Washington's Chicago Democratic primary victory last month in what was considered by many to be the death knell for Chicago's political machine...
...homecoming announcement marks a turning point. The atmosphere moves away from levity to confrontation; Hallie withdraws from the festivities into the role of Master Harold. Overcome by embarrassment about his father, he seeks to keep what precious little dignity he has by suddenly lording over Sam and Willie and clinging to his status in society...
...Master Harold and the Boys challenges the audience to evaluate its own conception of justice. Every country has its own apartheid, be it between Black and white or rich and poor, and unless these barriers are surmounted now, we run the tremendous risk of poisoning future generations...