Economy & Business: Ford's Secret Probe of lacocca

In 500 interviews, asking some leading question

Normally about this time of year, conversation at suburban Detroit's Bloomfield Hills Country Club starts rotating around to how strong the autumn selling season will be. Last week Topic A at the favorite watering hole of the auto industry's top leaders was quite different. Just as they have for weeks, auto executives were buzzing with nonstop speculation as to the motives for Chairman Henry Ford II's firing last month of Lee Iacocca as Ford Motor Co. president.

Quite a few Ford executives were in a nervous and edgy mood....

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