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...interest rates, tough competition from firms with lower costs, and poor management. In 1977 Harvester brought in former Xerox Executive Archie McCardell, and then made him chairman in 1979, to pull it out of its slump; instead, things got worse. McCardell was ousted in the spring of 1982. Donald Lennox, another Xerox alumnus, became boss...
...Lennox, 65, smoothed relations with the United Auto Workers, whom McCardell had infuriated during a six-month strike, and got them to accept a 29-month contract that saved the company $200 million. Lennox also consolidated many plant operations, concentrating manufacturing muscle on Harvester's most profitable products, especially trucks. Staff cuts lowered the worldwide work force to 32,455 at the end of 1983, from 65,640 two years earlier. Even office space at the company's Chicago headquarters was slashed from twelve floors to 7½, while the corporate staff withered to 600, from...
...same improbable Cupid, however, who was part of the hit team that smudged the pregnant Diana in the Bahamas a year ago. (A hit in Fleet Street lingo is a good story, and a smudge is a photo.) Armed with jungle gear and survey maps, Whitaker and Photographer Kenny Lennox entered the jungle at 5:55 one morning, just before sunup. They were on a patch of land opposite the beach where Charles and Diana were staying. Says Whitaker: "We crawled, carrying a lens the size of a bloody howitzer for a solid hour and a half...
...Lennox started shooting. "Diana was rubbing suntan oil on the Prince's back. Sensational! I kept saying to Kenny, 'I've never done anything as intrusive in my life.' But it was a journalistic high. I've never had such a buzz...
...Defense--Lennox Sterling, Colgate...