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...built." Nichols today called the report "a total fabrication," and said he had no knowledge of the Murrah building and had never been to Oklahoma City. The informant's story was included in more than 100 pages of documents obtained in a Freedom of Information Act request by the Detroit Free Press and The Detroit News...
...rivals had pressured for weeks to resign, said he would leave the 13.3-million-member labor federation Aug. 1 -- with a recommendation that his protege, executive secretary Thomas Donahue, succeed him. But powerful dissidents in the flagging organization are not backing his choice. "Handovers like that are dinosaurs," saysTIME Detroit bureau chief William McWhirter. "Nobody in the labor movement is in the mood to sleep through this. They want a generational shift." The battle parallels the recent upheaval in the Teamsters union, in which one-time radicals rolled over an outgoing leader's hand-picked candidate. Kirkland's possible successor...
...greatness?" Not surprisingly, there were many adherents to the latter proposition. William Jenkinson, a self-described investigative historian, attempted to quantify Ruth's home-run prowess, dropping such impressive phrases as "drag coefficient" and "fast-twitch muscle fiber." A more direct analysis was offered by Ray Hayworth, a Detroit Tigers catcher during Ruth's era who had the advantage of watching the superstar in action from inches away. "Babe was just great," Hayworth explained. "It always amazed me that when he'd swing, you could hear the bat actually grind in his hands...
Billionaire Kirk Kerkorian has ended his $22.8 billion hostile bid for Chrysler in what TIME Detroit Bureau Chief William McWhirter calls "an artless folly of comical proportions--the worst single deal in the history of money." Kerkorian, who said today through a spokesman that he has no plans to sell his 36 million shares, had offered to increase his ownership to 90% of Chrysler ina deal backed by former Chrysler chairman Lee Iacocca. "This deal simply couldn't be done," says McWhirter. "None of the traditional debt instruments were there to finance it, and no syndicate bank wanted that type...
Keivn J. Chown Detroit, Michigan...