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...face. After 32 years with Ford, the plain-spoken son of an Italian immigrant was a Horatio Alger-hero on wheels, a paradigm of upward automobility. Yet unlike others who have risen through the sober, polyester-clad ranks of America's most important industry, lacocca is perpetually outspoken, fashionably dressed in European worsteds and as obviously at ease in a barroom throbbing with used-Ford salesmen as in a hearing room full of Senators. If humans can be said to have automotive analogues, lacocca suggests nothing so much as a Ford Mustang, that stylish-yet-democratic car whose creation...
...doing good with its agricultural technology. Thomas Wyman is the 6-ft. 3-in. president of Green Giant Co., and since he took over in 1975, he has aimed at revitalizing that famous but slow growing processor of vegetables; this year its sales will approach $500 million. An outspoken executive, he often rebukes business for high-polluting plants, unsafe products, underfunded pensions, and overseas bribes. Despite such visible failings, he argues, there is far more talent in business than in politics, and therefore business should do much to solve global problems, including malnutrition. This is both the right...
...foreword to Simon's book, Economist Friedrich A. Hayek says he cannot understand how a man of such outspoken views could have held a high Government post. Simon indeed prides himself on speaking out with all the exuberance of an Alger hero, and although it was always rumored that he was on the brink of being fired, he managed to survive. As Richard Nixon's energy czar, he hoped, in vain, to preside over the liquidation of his own empire. He writes, "There is nothing like becoming an economic planner oneself to learn what is desperately, stupidly wrong...
...worried about whether or not we can hold on to the territories. But the price we pay worries me. Here we are, a democratic society, holding another society hostage." Uri Avneri, editor of the Tel Aviv weekly magazine Ha 'olam Hazeh, is even more outspoken. "The occupation is an unmitigated disaster for Israel. The fact that the Palestinians remain without their dignity poses a greater danger to Israeli security than any long-range benefit Israel could have from the military side of things...
...last December, he sent his wife Rosalynn and Brzezinski to meet with Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski, the assertive leader of the country's 31 million Roman Catholics. In Washington, Brzezinski has received a steady stream of visiting Polish writers, academics and journalists, most recently Krzysztof Kozlowski, an editor of the outspoken Catholic weekly Tygodnik Powszechny...