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...Lincolns' differences were more striking. The real Abe was psychologically complicated and politically inconstant, which means both Democrats and Republicans can comfortably impersonate him. When I asked A.L.P.er David Kreutz, a 63-year-old retired auto employee from Depew, N.Y., and a member of the state's liberal Working Families Party, to define Lincoln's greatness, he said, "I think his outstanding feature was to make such inroads from a poor family. He knew hardship." But ask conservative Republican Chester Damron, 71, the same question, and the Seventh-Day Adventist minister from Michigan says, "I respect his honesty and integrity...
...Jolly Farm six miles from Philadelphia and uncovered the three bodies. Each man had been shot to death with a .38-caliber weapon; Chaney had been beaten so horribly that a pathologist who performed an autopsy said he had never seen such injuries except in a highspeed auto accident or a plane crash...
After a hard day at the auto plant last week, Mark Daniel and his co-workers played a couple of games of softball, then went out for pizza and a few beers. But the scene was not Detroit or any other American factory town. Instead, the unlikely site of Daniel's work and play was Hofu (pop. 120,000), a city 56 miles southwest of Hiroshima in Japan. Daniel, along with 47 other Americans who work for the U.S. subsidiary of Mazda, the third largest Japanese automaker, was finishing up a four-week stint at the firm's Hofu assembly...
Labor-management relations will be especially delicate. As Mazda fills the 3,500 jobs at the new facility, the company has been giving preference to laid-off Ford workers, most of whom are members of the United Auto Workers. The U.A.W., which has saluted Mazda's Hofu training program as part of an "enlightened approach" to operating in the U.S., intends to organize the entire Flat Rock work force. That would create the closest partnership yet between a Japanese car company and an American union. Although Toyota's joint car-building venture with General Motors in Fremont, Calif., employs U.A.W...
...Star Kenny Rogers had said he made more than $150 million in the past ten years. No mere show-biz ostentation, his testimony was meant to show the earning power of a pop music talent, specifically that of Singer-Songwriter Harry Chapin, who was killed in 1981, when his auto was hit by a truck. His widow, Sandy Chapin, was suing the trucking company for $25 million in potential earnings; last week the jury in a Brooklyn, N.Y. federal court awarded her $7.2 million. And what does a musical mogul do to relax from the pressures of all that moneymaking...