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...country where businessmen dress discreetly, speak circumspectly and plod patiently up the executive ladder, Robert A. Lutz, the president of German Ford, cuts a rather exotic figure. He wears elegant London-made suits and colorful shirts, rides motorcycles, collects and personally restores old cars, and speaks provocatively enough to have rated a full-length interview in the May German edition of Playboy (sample quote: "There is nothing rational about the automobile industry. There is no other aspect of business that depends so much on psychology, prejudice and image"). Now the 44-year-old Lutz is moving into...
...after two years of flagging sales and profits, is racing out of the valley of despair like a supercharged Porsche showing its paces in an Alpine rally. Output rose 47% in January from a year earlier, and many executives view 1976 with something akin to euphoria. Predicts Robert A. Lutz, head of German Ford: "It will be a fantastic year...
...subsidiary, thanks to nimble financial management, was able to stay in the black with a profit of $2.4 million on sales of $1.8 billion. "The big producers were all stuck with high breakeven points [largely because of high labor costs and excess plant capacity] when the recession struck," says Lutz, who moved to Ford from Bayerische Motoren Werke (BMW) in 1974. "Now the arithmetic is coming right...
Blurred Copy. He returned to Princeton, where he has been teaching. V.P.S., with the support of the BBC, brought in Documentary Film Maker Lutz Becker (Swastika) to reshape Ophuls' original into something more to their liking. In March, a loyalist working on the production managed to get hold of a blurred work copy of the 4 hours 38 minutes of Ophuls' version and spirited it off to the U.S. Since then, Ophuls has screened the only existing copy of his film-"the version," he says, "I'll stand by"-for critics and friends, in an effort...
...Notable American Women was the brain child of Arthur M. Schlesinger, whose New Viewpoints in American History (1928) had mapped out the new area of social history, and whose interest in women's history had helped establish the Radcliffe Women's Archives, now the Schlesinger Library. It was Alma Lutz, along with another woman historian, who spent a winter during the mid-'50 s trying to determine whether there were enough women in American history to justify the undertaking. On the basis of their recommendations, the Radcliffe College Council voted in 1957 to sponsor the dictionary...