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Four and a half pounds of such grave information, adorned with floral displays of sociological prose ("Grieving is a sense of reaction with motor implications"), are assembled in this handy encyclopedia of death. Financed by the National Funeral Directors Association, the book may indeed make one of the more significant contributions to the U.S. death industry since the invention of Frederick & Trump's Corpse Cooler. It goes a long way toward reconciling its readers to the sentimental (and expensive) horrors of the usual U.S. funeral. The rest of the world, it seems, is not much better...
...first Henry Ford, unlike his grandson, might have thought scholarly Robert McNamara, president of the Ford Motor Co., an odd choice to be top man in either Dearborn or the Pentagon. San Francisco-born, Bob McNamara was a sophomore Phi Beta Kappa at the University of California. He went on to Harvard Business School for a master's degree, taught there for three years after working briefly for the accounting firm of Price, Waterhouse & Co. Although 4-F (eye trouble) during World War II, McNamara wangled a captain's commission in the Army Air Forces, eventually joined...
...anti-Americanism rests on the suspicion that the U.S. is out to reduce Britain to satellite status, has manifested itself in everything from his opposition to a 1946 U.S. loan to Britain ("We have sold the Empire for a trifling sum") to wild editorial outcries at the Ford Motor Co.'s recent bid to buy 100% control of its British subsidiary ("Why should all the profits flow across the Atlantic?"). Last week, newly returned from an 18-month U.S. sojourn, the Express's "This Is America" columnist, personable Peter Chambers, 36, unstoppered a report that read startlingly like...
...Henry Ford II, 43, chairman and chief executive officer of the Ford Motor Co., reassumed the post of president vacated by Robert S. McNamara, who resigned to become Defense Secretary (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Ford is filling the post only temporarily, touching off a guessing game as to who will be the next president. Among the most likely candidates: John Bugas, 52, vice president of Ford's international group; James O. Wright, 48, chief of Ford's car-and-truck division (McNamara's job before he became president...
...Beacon Hill, legislators from Cambridge have already introduced bills to facilitate sale or lease of the land to Sullivan and Chase, who recently promoted construction of the Treadway Motor (on stilts) in Brattle Sq. There has been speculation that success of the new might lead to closing of the MTA in Harvard...