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...Famous for the unprecedented barbarity of Lee Marvin throwing a pot of boiling coffee into the face of his girlfriend, Gloria Grahame....
...On their first night back in ’Nam, our heroes boogie-strut to Marvin Gaye in a bar called, wait for it, Apocalypse Now. The reference is more than an in-joke....
...the late 1970s, he dreamt up an “Electronic Thumb” — a device that looked like a large electronic calculator on which you could summon up a million “pages” — and perhaps my favourite robot of all time, Marvin...
...How he turned pop into a production line, inspired by his experiences working at the Ford plant....
...Higgledy-piggledy, it rounds up surviving suspects from the late-1970s social and creative meltdown that was New York after Nixon and Ford. Andy Warhol pops up yet again....
...The Hazelden Betty Ford Foundation, the best-known name in US addiction treatment, started recommending the drug be used in 2013 at the behest of its medical director, Marvin Seppala....
...This could be seen just across town at the Ford Motor Company, one of the subjects of Maraniss’s book. Henry Ford II, the founder’s grandson, took Ford public in 1956 but remained its leader....
...If there is any precursor for him in US history, it is not Henry Ford or Warren Buffett. It is Harry Houdini. Mr Trump is an escape artist....
...At the same ceremony, Martin Ford’s The Rise of the Robots was named 2015 Business Book of the Year....
...Another Star Wars film (with septuagenarian Harrison Ford returning as Solo) is due in December, and two sequels and three spin-offs are in development....
...By then Marvin Bower had already shaped McKinsey into the model of a modern management consultancy, creating the sector as we now know it....
...Marvin Odum, Shell’s director of oil and gas production in the Americas, said the company was already talking to several potential buyers for the assets that were up for sale....
...The approach Gordy borrowed from Henry Ford created a true hit factory by focusing obsessively, like a modern-day advocate of “six-sigma” disciplines for eliminating defects, on creating near-perfect end...
...Earlier this year it acquired acreage in the Eagle Ford area of South Texas and bought the majority of East Resources, a private company with significant holdings in the highly prospective Marcellus Shale...
...With oil production onshore and in shallow water in long-term decline, although now being boosted by the development of “unconventional” resources such as the Eagle Ford shale in Texas, the US will have...
...The music playing as we entered the theatre was a perfect summation of the situation: Marvin Gaye wondering “What’s Going On”....
...My favourite photo, from a 1965 television appearance, shows them singing and snapping their fingers while perched on the back of a Mustang at a Ford assembly plant....
...Weinberg accrued power and status through working for government, as his successors did, and pulled off the biggest initial public offering in history, floating Ford in January 1956....
...In John Ford’s 1962 film The Man Who Shot Liberty Vallance, the editor of the town newspaper opines: “When the truth and the legend conflict, print the legend!”...
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