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...past 27 years, "Mr. Mac," as he is known to his 46,000 teammates, has built and babied his McDonnell Co. from nothing into a $1 billion-a-year corporation. With his performance in the manufacture of Mercury and Gemini space capsules, he gave U.S. astronauts an essential boost into space. His jet planes were among the few ready to carry U.S. airmen into combat in Korea; for Viet Nam he has produced the F-4 Phantom, the hottest fighter yet flown in combat by any air force in the world. By his dedication to technical precision, he has turned...
Like a Barony. Mr. Mac is a man of continuing contradictions. From the start of his highly organized career he has concentrated his genius for aerospace production on a comparatively few products. But next month, by merging his company with Douglas Aircraft, he will become boss of one of the nation's most impressively diversified aerospace manufacturers. In an era of bland corporate management, he insists on ruling his 20th century aeronautical beehive like a 19th century industrial barony. His warm paternalism is flavored with benevolent despotism; he customarily sends a pair of baby shoes when an employee becomes...
...McDonnell pull Douglas out of its spin? Nobody who knows Mr. Mac thinks he would have put so much money into a company so loaded with debt unless he felt confident of the outcome. And as if to bolster that confidence, he plans to install a new chief executive at Douglas: the handsome heir apparent from McDonnell, President (since 1962) David S. Lewis...
...atmosphere. Now that Douglas and McDonnell can plan and build that equipment together, the job should become not only easier but more profitable?and the cross-pollination of ideas between two sets of engineers may lead to new and more advanced projects. "Once our merger goes through," says Mr. Mac proudly, "we'll be big enough to take on any space project that comes along...
...loner, Mac developed a talent for unsparing self-analysis. For a while he dreamed of a political career. "I thought I would like to spend my life trying to bring about the things that Woodrow Wilson stood for," he says, "but my Scotch daddy set me straight. He said, 'You're too shy. Your brother Bill could do it, but you couldn't.' I thought about that for a while and decided he was right...