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...brained "Freeway of Love," explores adolescent sexuality with all the subtlety of a rubber hygiene implement. And it hardly requires a degree from the Motor City School of Imagery to figure out what Franklin means when she refers to her "pink Cadillac": the phrase does for Springsteen's infamous auto what Sheena's "sugar walls" did for the dextrose concession...
Some opponents contend that SDI will hurt the civilian economy and the U.S. position in world trade. Says Hans Bethe, a Cornell physicist and Nobel laureate: "The best engineers will go into SDI because the technical problems are fascinating. Meanwhile, we can't make an auto to compete with the $ Japanese. It's less exciting to design a better auto...
...national and local leaderships of the United Auto Workers (UAW) split over organizing tactics. The national UAW wanted to rely on its prestige and to organize through heavy does of literature in the workplace while the local leaders pushed to continue their one-on-one, grass-roots style of organizing. The local leaders, reacting to the UAW's top-heavy organizing strategy, formed a separate group, preliminary to an official union. The new group must be ratified by the NLRB after a majority of Harvard workers approves it--a conclusion expected after a scheduled spring vote...
...trafficking, DeLorean became a born-again Christian and began attending weekly Bible study classes. He never gave up his dream. As he writes in his autobiography, "I would delight in being able to resurrect the DeLorean car." He and a group of investors including Marvin Katz, an Ohio-based auto-parts distributor, hope to start a modest venture that would turn out 250 cars annually, possibly in Columbus...
...DeLoreans sold in the U.S. are beginning to disappear from American roads because of the lack of spare parts. But the car has not totally receded from the popular imagination. In last summer's megahit movie Back to the Future, the supercharged auto that carries Marty McFly back to the 1950s is a converted DeLorean, specially equipped for time travel...