Word: chicago
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...General Motors to become vice president and general manager of its $3 billion truck-manufacturing operation, which accounts for 75% of Navistar's revenues. He is now one of the most powerful black executives in the country. Last year, when Roberts was looking for a house in a wealthy Chicago suburb, the real estate agent asked what he did for a living. Pop singer? Baseball player? "It never occurred to him that I could be a corporate executive," Roberts explains. "But it's not his fault. It just shows that America isn't used...
...HUMAN FIGURE IN EARLY GREEK ART, the Art Institute of Chicago. Sixty-seven choice works drawn from Greek museums trace the emerging lineaments of the classical style. Through...
...connoisseurs of roughhouse local politics, there is no place like Chicago and no name like that of the late Mayor Richard J. Daley. Last week it appeared that the fabled boss's firstborn son might be the next occupant of the office in city hall from which hizzoner presided for 21 years. In a Democratic primary notable for its racially polarized voting, Cook County State's Attorney Richard M. Daley defeated Eugene Sawyer, a black who took over as mayor 16 months ago, after the death of Harold Washington, Chicago's first black chief executive. Daley...
...Democratic primary, chose instead to wage an independent campaign under the banner of the "Harold Washington Party." Thus, having defeated one black opponent in the primary, Richie Daley will have to overcome another in the general election on April 4 to reclaim his father's office. If he does, Chicago would become the third major city (after Cleveland and Charlotte, N.C.) in which the mayor's office, once won by a black, has reverted to white control...
...addition to the $37 million purchase price he paid Murdoch, who reportedly lost $150 million in the twelve years he owned the paper, Kalikow has already sunk $17 million into the Post. The Chicago-based Tribune Co., owner of the Daily News, has spent more than $100 million reviving the paper since it nearly folded in 1982, while the Los Angeles-based Times-Mirror Co. has invested about the same amount in its attempt to create a New York paper by expanding Newsday from its profitable base on Long Island...