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Iacocca became Ford's president in 1970. Eight years later, Chairman Henry Ford II demoted and exiled him. "He'll always be mad at Henry Ford," says Kathi Iacocca, 25, one of his two daughters. "He will take it to his grave. People who don't understand his anger don't know my father." Says a former Iacocca colleague: "He believes in reprisals for his enemies." In the book, Henry Ford is depicted as venal and mean, an almost unbelievably unappealing character. Iacocca asserts that his former boss was paranoid, vulgar, personally extravagant at company expense, cruel and sexist. Many...
...married in 1956, is the daughter of an Irish Catholic plumber. She was a receptionist at a Ford sales office in Chester, Pa., when the couple met at a Ford conference in Philadelphia in 1948. They have two daughters, Lia, 18, a student at a Michigan college, and Kathi, 23, a recent Middlebury (Vt.) College graduate who is a Washington public relations account executive. lacocca and his daughters are close; he usually stays in Kathi's guest bedroom during his frequent trips to the capital...
This article was written collectively by the following members of Mobilization for Survival: Jim Garrison, a Ph.D. candidate at the Divinity School; Geoff Bernstein '80; Sybil Highes '81; Geoff Wisner '80; Paige Tolbert '79; Joan Lancourt; and Kathi Matthews...
Indeed she is-to a degree almost unheard of nowadays. Stevens, 65, descended from a long line of schooner fishermen, designed Kathi Anne II himself, although he had no training in naval architecture and never went beyond ninth grade. From groves on his own farm he cut white pine for her planking, black spruce for her spars, oak for her ribs. He poured the lead for her keel in two old iron bathtubs. One of his brothers made her trapezoidal, gaff-headed sails (no newfangled spinnakers for Kathi A nne). A brother-in-law made her goosenecks, blocks and deadeyes...
...contest was billed as the best two out of three races. In the first, Stevens steered to a 1 hr. 15 min. victory, using a compass that his father had won as a trophy in 1910. The second race was in fog and light airs, but Kathi Anne proved fast enough on any heading, in any wind: she won by 36½ min. There was no third race-only rejoicing among Lunenburg Bluenoses and pride in their tradition of family craftsmanship...