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...Bureau's usefulness as an employment agency is not the only interface between the FBI and the American corporate structure. FBI agents often find lucrative jobs with corporations after leaving the Bureau. Turner reports that certain corporations--such as Sears-Roebuck and the Ford Motor Co.--were know to all agents in the Bureau as good places to apply. Ford employs nearly 30 agents in its central management, dozens more in subsidiaries (not surprisingly, Ford sponsored "The FBI" during its early years on television). The Society of Former Agents of the FBI, an independent alumni organization set up to keep...
...crucial bodily junctions doesn't convince you of the role of corporate capitalism in fomenting the ongoing crisis of taste in America, you might take a look at the current "number-one", where bad taste at last swims home to spawn at the fountainhead of the corporate aesthetic--Detroit, Motor City, Michigan, the town that brought you fins, concrete, smog, motels, controlled obsolescence and drive-in movie theatres...
...Beautiful.'" No, the real moments are like the one at a business conference where Hailey has the GM Board Chairman 'whimsically' saying, "Unless anyone has a better suggestion, we might as well begin." Yes, that's the way it is. That's exactly what passes for whimsy in the Motor City...
Elixir Mixer. Many automotive engineers have long dismissed oil additives like STP, Bardahl and Wynn's as all but useless in normal engines. Most motor oils today are fortified with so many acid neutralizers, detergents and thickeners that any additives can thwart their carefully calculated effects...
...Sound Barriers. Still, even the ingenious Caccavari can prescribe nothing but new equipment for the biggest group of noisemakers: motor vehicles. To date, environmental control officers have ticketed 400 vehicles-most of them heavy trucks-for exceeding legal sound barriers of 78 decibels for a car, 84 for a motorcycle and 90 for a truck. The drivers can scarcely believe their ears when they are haled to the curb for a summons. "But officer, I wasn't going too fast," pleaded one truck driver. "No, but you were going too loud," said the cop. Another trucker argued: "Our firm...