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Detroiters sometimes liken the atmosphere in Ford Motor's executive suite to a Byzantine court. The company now has not one but three presidents: Lee lacocca, Robert Stevenson and Robert Hampson. The rumor mill turns largely on which one seems to be most in the chairman's favor at the moment. Whoever it is certainly does not call Ford "Henry"; no employee dares to. lacocca, a highly aggressive and voluble man, seems to have the lead now. He is one of the few executives who will tell Ford when he thinks the chairman is wrong. Even so, visitors to lacocca...
...first glance, looks perilously like clumsy reproductions of valuable old masters. On second glance, the suspicious would-be buyer sees that Clarke has deliberately differentiated his "reproduction" from the originals by using a stylized process that reduces their complex color schemes to a few relatively simple components. "I liken the process," he says, "to sending a telegram wherein you use the fewest, most precise words for the meaning of the message...
...RUNNING BACKS: O. J. Simpson, Southern Cal, 6 ft. 2 in., 210 Ibs.; and Paul Gipson, Houston, 6 ft., 205 Ibs. The scouts are calling 1968 the Year of the Running Back. Reason No. 1 is Heisman Trophy Winner Simpson, everybody's All-Everything. The pros liken his bulling power, his marvelous moves and his explosive speed to a cross between Jim Brown and Gale Sayers. That means, as one scout says, that "he is the greatest college runner in 10-20-50 years-unbelievable!" Noting that OJ. ran the ball an average of 35 times a game this...
...Pavilion and treated to the traditional high jinks of an American Fourth of July celebration-in-cluding fireworks, a picnic atop HemisFair's 622-ft. tower and speechmaking. San Antonio's Independence Day orator was Lyndon Johnson himself, who departed from the standard rhetoric to liken the hopes of the founding fathers to those of the Latin nations today. The goals of those who met in Philadelphia, he told the ambassadors, "are the goals now of the New World...
Rogue Elephants. In their more poetic moments, sportswriters liken the line play to an "elephants' ballet." The elephant part is accurate. The Los Angeles Rams' "Fearsome Foursome" weighs about 1,100 Ibs. between them. Left End David ("Deacon") Jones, 29, stands 6 ft. 5 in., weighs 260 Ibs., and runs the 100 in 10 sec. flat. The Rams' right end, Lamar Lundy, 32 (6 ft. 7 in., 260 Ibs.), appears briefly in the movie version of In Cold Blood as a motorist who offers a lift to two hitchhiking murderers: they take one look...