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...Ford Motor Co., a U.A.W. official turned up in a kilt and sporran, sporting a button that demanded a wage increase of 27.5%-JUST LIKE HENRY...
...special magic in other urban areas. In San Francisco, he is chief planner and part owner of the $200 million Embarcadero Center rising near the waterfront. In Detroit, Henry Ford II selected him to design Renaissance Center, a $500 million development that should give a new spin to the Motor City. He also has buildings completed or planned in Chicago, Chattanooga, Los Angeles, Fort Worth, Brussels and Paris. Last week the gentle, soft-spoken Portman, 48, announced that he will make his first foray into Manhattan, putting up a $150 million combination hotel-theater that is designed to restore some...
...idea when it comes to plant tours. They load people on busses every half-hour, and give them an hour-and-a-half run through the entire facility, plus a look at Dearborn--a town which tourguides lead one to believe, is a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Ford Motor Company. If you're lucky enough to arrive before 2 p.m., you get to see the assembly line. If you get there after two (we arrived at 2:03) you only get to see the Ford steel-making operations...
...South on Interstate 75, the whole city seems to belong to Ford. You do, of course, see other things--there's G.M.'s Fisher Body plant, and a big General Tire sign which informs you that 5,187,640 cars have rolled off the assembly lines of the Motor City, and informs you every second or so that another car has come off. Still, it's Ford that hits you hardest, and the biggest Ford area of all is River Rouge...
...Henry Ford II, chairman of the board of the Ford Motor Company. The corporation Ford runs is only America's fourth largest, but it perhaps best epitomizes the deadening and exploitative assembly line conditions under which America's work force labors. Ford's political views -- he is an active Democrat -- are also interesting. The party of the little man, it seems, is not quite what it's cracked...