Because of our cerebral approach to making decisions and our youth, we became known as the Whiz Kids. We were as much a shock to Ford’s parochial culture as the automotive culture was to us. Most of our group avoided the Detroit social scene. Senior automobile executives always lived in the wealthy suburbs of Grosse Point or Bloomfield Hills, but two of us chose Ann Arbor, home of the University of Michigan, so that we could raise our children in a university environment. Our political views were not typical of motor company executives, either. One of John Bugas’s jobs, I soon discovered, was
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