Word: lees
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Last July Ford fired President Lee Iacocca, who was later replaced by Philip Caldwell. Some time before Jan. 1, Caldwell will probably replace Ford as chairman as well as chief executive, and Executive Vice President William O. Bourke, 51, is expected to move to the president's post; both are highly able, although less colorful than Ford. Meanwhile, Henry's brother William Clay Ford, 54, is expected to remain as chairman of the executive committee. Henry Ford may stay on as chairman of a revised finance committee and a director. Said one Ford Motor Co. insider: "As long...
Unfortunately, the off-season may not have brought enough new things to push the Red Sox past New York. Boston's winter trades disposed of Bill Lee, resident flake and longtime starting pitcher (94 wins, 68 losses), and picked up four minor players who can, at best, be counted on as utility men. Meanwhile, the Yankees, true to then-big-spending ways, obtained two more front-line pitchers: the Dodgers' Tommy John and, unkindest cut of all, Boston's Luis Tiant. Ageless and irrepressible, Tiant was a favorite of Boston fans and a stopper for crucial games...
...used to be known as Robert E. Lee, which had a certain ring, but now he is called Roberto E. Leon, which has certain advantages−or so it seemed for a while. A retired Navy captain, Leon, 56, works as an engineer for Montgomery County, Md., outside Washington. When Lee took the Hispanic name Leon, he asked the county to grant him preferential status under its affirmative-action program. Leon noted that he had a Spanish grandfather and claimed that he had been considering the switch for years, but he also confessed: "What's wrong with being...
...abuse of federal law and regulations" to accept such a name change as a basis for conferring minority status. The county promptly launched an investigation into its whole affirmative-action program, and Roberto E. Leon is still being treated by his employers as though he were named Robert E. Lee...
...bougainvillaea, poinsettia, u'ulei, mamane or hinahina blossoms, it would be worth visiting for Haleakala alone. It is among the world's largest dormant volcanoes-it has not erupted since 1790-and its brooding presence dominates Maui. The crater of 10,000-ft.-high Haleakala (pronounced Hah-lee-ah-kah-lah) is seven miles long, two miles across and half a mile deep. While it has almost no vegetation save for patches of glistening silversword, the crater is dotted with rose-tipped cinder cones, evidence of minor eruptions over the centuries. It resembles nothing so much...