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Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Thomas Crooks | 7/22/1975 | See Source »

...after some talking Crooks went to work for Ford Motor, in Somerville. He says he enjoyed it, but when Harvard called two years later he jumped at the chance to come back and has been here ever since. He was director of student placement, assistant director of the Summer School, dean of special students, master of Dudley House and director of the Summer School, a career on the edge of the University but a long way from Seminole all the same. Thinking it over, perhaps becoming master of Dudley House was what did it, what committed Crooks to a life...

Author: By Nicholas Lemann, | Title: Thomas Crooks | 7/22/1975 | See Source »

...Ford Motor Co. Chairman Henry Ford II has called for creation of a highly visible and vocal federal planning body?underscoring Nobel Laureate Leontief's prediction that the U.S. will adopt planning "not because some wild radicals demand it but because businessmen will demand it to keep the system from sputtering to a halt." Ford's idea is that a planning organization should examine "cost-effectiveness and set timetables. It should take a look at population growth; usages of raw materials and their

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Can Capitalism Survive? | 7/14/1975 | See Source »

...grinned as I grimaced at the inevitable clumsiness of taking people's pictures. Two waist-high kids came over to look at the bicycle. One spoke French for both of them, and told me about his father's bike that had a "pa-pa-put" motor on it so he never had to pedal except to get started. He asked me about the name engraved on the frame of the bike, and laughed when I said the American r's in "Sears, Roebuck...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: The Sun Never Sets on Empire | 5/28/1975 | See Source »

...Gulf Oil Company, which is rumored to be financing a separatist guerilla movement there. American Oil Company has just opened a field south of Luanda with cooperation from Shell. On the rooftop patio of a downtown Luanda hotel, I met an American tractor demonstrator and salesman from the Ford Motor Company whose job was to town-hop in the interior and set up Ford's market. He was very proud of Luanda's Ford dealership, Robert Hudson Ford, and their $20 million parts warehouse. His impression of the countryside was that "parts of it are very scenic, but most only...

Author: By Tom Blanton, | Title: The Sun Never Sets on Empire | 5/28/1975 | See Source »

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