Page 6-Tuesday, July 25, 1978-The Michigan Daily I; Ford Co. heir ap arent is a DETROIT (AP)-If his predecessor at Ford Motor Co. sired the sporty Mustang, Philip Caldwell is linked with the mini-compact Fiesta. But Cald- well, heir-apparent to the top operating post at Ford, is a "team man" who rejects the notion that l4 any one man can father a new car. "No one person has the right to claim a history of a car," Caldwell once told a reporter in a thinly- veiled reference to Lee Lacocca, the Mustangs creator he apparently will succed as president. THEREIN LIES part of the reason Caldwell, 58, vaulted over Iacocca to become vice chairman and second in command at the world's second biggest automaker. A low-profile man with a stong background in finance, he is an opposite of the brash, aggressive Iacocca, a salesman. Company insiders say Cald- well doesn't raise hackles as Iacocca did. That should make Caldwell more compatible with Henry Ford II, chairman and chief executive of- ficer, who runs the company with a strong hand. Personal friction with Ford reportedly led to Iacoc- ca's fall. PHILIP CALDWELL, vice chairman and second-in- "THE DIFFERENCE is in personality," said a command at Ford Motor Company, is being called Ford source who asked to remain anonymous. heir-apparent to the company's top operating post. "Caldwell is cool, calm, collected. He's known as the type who keeps everything under control." the role and has two higher titles as well. Ford officials would not comment on a Detroit "It doesn't matter what they call him," the source News report that Caldwell would be named Iacoc- said. ca's successor as company president. But the sour- Caldwell's ascension in April 1977 laid the groun- ce called it logical, since Caldwell is already filling dwork for the sudden firing of Iacocca on July 13. 'team man' Caldwell was named to a new three-man ruling body with Iacocca and Ford. Both men answered to Ford, but Caldwell was made more equal than Iacocca. In June, Caldwell became deputy chief execptive officer and vice chairman and Iacocca was told to report to him. CALDWELL IS expected to replace Henry Ford as chief executive office in 1980. Henry plans to remain chairman until 1982, when his brother, William Clay Ford, is expected to replace him on the board. The top-level shuffle is seen as a way to keep the family atop the company. But Caldwell, not William Clay Ford, would run the day-to-day operations. After Caldwell and William Clay Ford would come Edsel Ford II, 29, Henry's only son, who is now second in charge of Ford of Australia and being openly groomed for both his father's current posts. A HARVARD BUSINESS School graduate, Cald- well is described by colleagues as in the General Motors mold-a grey-suited management man unlike the more colorful executives associated with Ford Motor. While Iacocca was flying high atop the key Ford Division, Caldwell was laboring as head of truck operations, Ford's Philco subsidiary and finally its overseas operations. He guided development of the European-built Fiesta "world car" and presided over an inter- national operation that by 1977 generated 42 percent of Ford's worldwide profits. Gas filibuster hits Senate early WASHINGTON (AP)-A new Senate filibuster against natural gas deregulation arrived a week early yesterday, as delaying tactics by Sen. James Abourezk (D-S.D.) slowed Senate action to a crawl. "Here we go again," declared the maverick liberal who has turned fighting natural gas legislation into nearly a full-time occupation. THROUGH A NUMBER of parlimen- tary stalling maneuvers, Abourezk gave the Senate its first taste of what promises to be a repeat of the filibuster he and Sen. Howard Metzenbaum (D- Ohio) waged against gas deregulation last fall, Abourezk claims that freeing natural gas from federal price controls-which the legislation would accomplish by 1985-would send gas prices soaring for consumers. He said he hoped to tie up the Senate to dramatize his opposition to the natural gas bill, a key portion of President Car- ter's 15-month-old energy program. THE NATURAL GAS compromise it- a wpnkp ,,inof the a mphll- 'Here we go again' -Sen. James Abourezk Abourezk and Metzenbaum opposed last September, is not scheduled to come up for a final Senate vote until next week at the earliest. But Abourezk decided not to wait. He took his place on the Senate floor at the start of yesterday's morning business and began lodging objections to a variety of routine motions which nonetheless require unanimous con- sent, which is usually given as a mat- ter of course. This included a demand for the reading of every senator's name to determine if a quorum were present, a tactic that consumed more than an hour yesterday as senators returned slowly from the weekend. THEN HE BEGAN demanding full roll call votes on even the most non- controversial of amendments to a bill to extend various federal programs for older Americans. "I don't really have a plan. I intend to fight any way I can," Abourezk told reporters. Unlike most filibusters, which are directed at single pieces of legislation, Abourezk indicated he would attempt to stall whatever happened to be on the Senate floor. HE SAID HE didn't really expect such a move would keep the gas-pricing compromise from getting to the floor. But he said he would make the effort to block it anyway. "I feel it's incumbent upon those of us who represent the public interest to put a stop to this," he said. Abourezk began the one-man filibuster alone, but Metzenbaum in- dicated support for the efforts. ONCE THE NATURAL gas com- promise' hits the floor, a number of others-both liberal hardcore opponen- ts of natural gas deregulation and some conservative Republicans who feel the compromise doesn't go far enough-are expected to join Abourezk in the filibuster. Abourezk also said he was unhappy that congressional leaders decided to take up the natural gas bill before voting on two other parts of the president's energy progam taht are also now ready for final Senate action. Those deal with energy conservation and electric rates. The Senate last week approved the first part of the energy plan to emerge from a House-Senate conference com- mittee, a bill aimed at forcing in- dustries to convert to coal. The Ann Arbor Film Cooperstive presents of AUD A TUESDAY, JULY 25 ADMISSION FREE WHITE HEAT (Raoul Walsh, 1949) 7 only-AUD A An American classic and JAMES CAGNEY'S best film. Cagney plays a psycho- pathic killer, subject to berserk rages and unduly attached to his vicious mother. One of the darkest and most powerful films ever made, filled with brilliant images, WHITE HEAT moves swiftly and surely to a breathtaking climax-the celebrated shoot-out in an oil refinery. Don't pass this one up. With VIRGINIA MAYO and EDMOND O'BRIEN.