Word: layton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Junior Fellows are: Joel E. Cohen '65, in Mathematical Biology and Sociology; Paul Horowitz '65, in Experimental Physics; Bentley R. Layton '63, in Early Christian History and Literature; John M. Lewis '65, in American Literature...
...Visibility. The man in charge of Ford's expansion in Germany is Robert Layton, 41, a native Berliner who fled Hitler's Germany in 1938. Layton studied accounting in England, later became a U.S. citizen, was hired by Ford as a financial analyst in 1950. In 1957, he was sent to Cologne as top financial executive for Ford's German subsidiary, soon became Chairman John Andrews' key aide. The two presided over a steady rise in both Taunus production (from 67,254 vehicles in 1957 to 395,498 last year) and market share...
Andrews and Layton still work as a team: Layton was made Ford's German chief in February when Andrews was called to Detroit to become Ford's European vice president...
...allay German fears of excessive foreign control, Layton has continued Ford's policy of keeping American influence at "low visibility." Of the 35,500 Ford Taunus employees, only 23 are Americans. To reassure his engineers that he can see beyond his accountant's ledger, Layton picks a new Taunus every night from the Cologne assembly plant, drives it to his suburban home, returns it the next morning with a meticulous check list of complaints and suggestions. Layton's optimism about autos is equal to Detroit's. "The European car market...
...Layton noted that the prize in music "hasn't always been for the most distinguished work," and that the jury's record has been "erratic." He "would certainly hesitate to say that there hadn't been a single work worthy of the prize...