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After turning down offers from the Detroit Lions and the Green Bay Packers, he worked his way through Yale Law School as an assistant varsity-football coach and freshman boxing coach. Among his football players were Senators Robert Taft Jr. of Ohio and William Proxmire of Wisconsin. With a friend, Ford set up a law practice in Grand Rapids in 1941, helped elect a reform slate of Republican candidates for local office, and then entered the Navy. When the war ended, Ford returned home to his law practice...
Cyrus Eaton is one of the most contradictory figures in U.S. business: an archetypal capitalist worth more than $150 million, he regularly visits Communist capitals from Havana to Hanoi in an attempt to promote East-West détente. He has made the Cleveland-based Chesapeake& Ohio one of the few profitable railroads in the country; last year it doubled its earnings, to $60 million. Eaton, at 89, talks and acts as though he plans to stay active in business forever-and lately that ambition has become all too painfully believable for his impatient corporate colonels. Last week, while Eaton...
...goes the educational process-at least for some teen-agers&$151;in the tiny (pop. 1,400) Ohio town of Mount Grab. The unorthodox program is the town's proud answer to a universal problem: how to deal with dropouts. In Mount Orab, the problem has been severe: for every 200 youngsters who graduated from the town's high school each year, 50 would drop out, often to do little more than hang out on the corner under the town's only streetlight...
With assistance from Ohio's statewide vocational-education program, they launched a class for dropouts. Since it started in July last year, it has become such a hit that some regular high school students have been tempted to drop out to join up. Indeed, a second class had to be formed this year. One reason is obviously Lodwick's down-to-earth approach to learning...
...seen it have all but unanimously held it in contempt. One of their basic objections is to the fact that Judge Kenneth Turner permitted Wiseman to film actual cases and poke his camera almost everywhere, including the judge's chambers. "It's a very unfair portrayal," says Ohio Judge Holland Gary, president of the council...