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...exceptional handful did spectacularly well in 1977, even though their raises were not much. The nation's biggest executive earner was Henry Ford II, chairman of Ford Motor Co. Last week the company announced that his salary and bonus edged up 2%, to $992,000. In all, General Motors Chairman Thomas Murphy earned $975,000, an increase of 2.6% over the year before. Mobil Chairman Rawleigh Warner Jr. got $725,000, up 4% from 1976. (For some other high executive moneymakers, see listing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Call to Waive That Raise | 4/24/1978 | See Source »

...catching up to those in the same month a year earlier, they came within 1.4%. Even better, sales of 883,000 U.S.-made cars and 192,000 imports during the month work out to an annual rate of 11.5 million cars. Says Lee lacocca, the peppery president of Ford Motor Co., "We have recovered from the frostbite of January and February. March wasn't a turnaround. It was a resumption of sales. The market was there; it was buried in the snow...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Recovering from Frostbite | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

Madame Rosa won an Oscar last week as the best foreign film of 1977, but the honor seems slightly askew. Director Moshe Mizrahi's film is so unashamedly a vehicle for a grand old actress that the award might better have been made by Motor Trend magazine. Signoret is marvelous as the lovable old baggage. Samy Ben Youb is luminous as Momo, the 14-year-old Arab boy who sticks with Madame Rosa to the end. Claude Dauphin is gallant as the indomitable old doctor who tends Rosa, and who is himself so rickety that he must be carried...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Even an Oscar Would Weep | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...Ford Motor Company has granted $25,000 to Radcliffe College and will accept eight Radcliffe students for summer internships in an effort to attract women to careers in science and technology...

Author: By William J. Berry, | Title: Radcliffe Internships | 4/12/1978 | See Source »

...Loeb Inc.; Louis L. Banks, adjunct professor of management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; John R. Beckett, chairman, Transamerica Corp.; Philip E. Beekman, president, the Seagram Co.; James F. Bere, chairman, Borg-Warner Corp.; Theodore F. Brophy, chairman, General Telephone & Electronics Corp.; Philip Caldwell, vice chairman of the board, Ford Motor Co.; Michael D. Dingman, chairman, Wheelabrator-Frye Inc.; Edwin D. Dodd, chairman, Owens-Illinois, Inc.; Donald N. Frey, chairman, Bell & Howell Co.; W.H. Krome George, chairman, Aluminum Co. of America; Henry J. Heinz II, chairman, H.J. Heinz Co.; William A. Hewitt, chairman, Deere & Co.; Barron Hilton, president, Hilton Hotels Corp...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Letter From The Publisher, Apr. 10, 1978 | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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