Business: Chrysler Gets Some Firepower

Feisty Lee Iacocca is back at the wheel again ft

"Johnny called me and said, 'Why don't you come over and give me a hand?' " So said former Ford President Lee Iacocca last week, talking about how he had just made one of the most spectacular moves in Detroit's long history of high-level executive swapping. Iacocca was appearing at a press conference in the Highland Park, Mich., headquarters of his new employer with his new boss, Chrysler Chairman John J. Riccardo, whom almost no one ever calls Johnny. But Riccardo did not seem...

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