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...firms that produced 200 products. As an Army Air Forces colonel in World War II, he won fame as the inventor of a "statistical control" system to keep track of the military's global resources. In 1946, he and nine Army colleagues moved to the financially ailing Ford Motor Co., where they were nicknamed the Whiz Kids...
Since 1979, when construction on the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority's (MBTA) Red Line extension began in Harvard Square, students have been bothered by early morning noise and residents have complained of continual disruption of pedestrian and motor traffic...
...White House had to make still another awkward admission last week: Allen, a former consultant to Nissan Motor Corp., which manufactures Datsun automobiles, had met with Takase and the president of Toyota Motor Sales last March at a time when the Administration was deciding whether to seek lower import quotas for Japanese cars. The next day Allen attended a meeting with Reagan and Japan's Foreign Minister, Masayoshi Ito, to discuss import quotas. Worried about a possible conflict of interest, White House officials asked Allen to review his records for past contacts with Japanese businessmen...
...favorite strategy of marijuana smugglers is for a drug-laden "mother ship," usually an aging freighter, to sail from Colombia or the Caribbean and then stay bobbing 50 miles or so off the Florida coast. On long hauls, drug runners motor out to the mother ship in yachts and fishing boats to pick up the cargo and then shuttle back to the mainland, docking anywhere along some 3,000 miles of South Florida coastline; on shorter hauls, they roar out in souped-up racing speedboats, called "cigarette" boats after the tobacco-bootlegging vessels of the 1930s. Costing as much...
...industry. But the board of directors unexpectedly went outside the business and chose John Nevin, 54, the silver-haired chairman of Zenith Radio Corp., to head Firestone. Nevin was not a total stranger to Firestone's world. Earlier in his career, he had been general manager of Ford Motor Co.'s parts division. Says he: "I knew tires and tire companies well...