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...tiger cages" will be built by the firm of Raymond. Morrison, Knudsen, Brown, Root and Jones (RMK-BRJ) under a $400,000 contract. The funds will be provided by MACCORDS (Military Assistance Command Civil Operations for Revolutionary Development Support), the American paramilitary economic aid program here...
...masterminded Ford Motor Co.'s happy successes with the Mustang and the Maverick. So lacocca figured that he was a cinch to take over the president's chair when Arjay Miller stepped down three years ago. But then a gray-haired 55-year-old named Semon E. Knudsen got passed over for his dad's old job as president of General Motors. Henry Ford II snapped up Knudsen for the Ford job and let lacocca wait...
After 19 months of valiantly trying to adjust to Ford Motor's more freewheeling style of management, Knudsen was fired. This time Henry Ford split the job of president into three parts and gave lacocca only one of them, with the ponderous title of executive vice president of Ford Motor Co. and president of Ford North American Automotive Operations...
Ford's success was once popularly attributed to brilliant No. 2 men, but that idea has faded as a long list of distinguished No. 2 men (Ernest Breech, Robert McNamara, Arjay Miller, recently Bunkie Knudsen) have come and gone. Some of them left, Detroiters gossip, because Ford eventually tires of people, particularly if they gain too much power in the company...
Married. Evelyn Y. Davis, 40, corporate gadfly whose insistent questions at annual stockholders' meetings (some 60 a year) are viewed by management as only slightly less disruptive than stink bombs; and Marvin Knudsen, 59, a New York stockbroker; both for the second time; in Greenwich, Conn...