This Good Guy Will Return.(Column)

Byline: Dutch Mandel Ask nearly anyone in the car business with a nanometer of sense about Chris Theodore and consensus is he got a corporate leaden parachute. Not that this son of Greek immigrants is without faults, but since his departure from Ford no one has lined up to pummel his character like a pinata.

He is just too good a guy. Theodore, 54, is an engineer's engineer, and until Dec. 1 he was Ford's veep of advanced product creation. What must be said of him is that both sides of his brain work overtime; the creative right half is as stout as his empirical left, and it's a ...

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