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Despite earning $1.2 million last year in salary and stock options, Stempel remains at heart a grease monkey who reads car-buff magazines, counts race-car driver A.J. Foyt among his friends and won a collection of drag-racing trophies in his youth. His one concession to corporate security: letting a chauffeur handle the 40-minute drive to work from his home in a posh suburb north of Detroit...
...Senior Tony Hinz (broken hand) is not expected to play. His two-week absence has meant more carries for Art McMahon (126 yards rushing two weeks ago) and Jim Reidy (76 yards rushing and 97 yards receiving against Boston University). Reidy is explosive and durable--a hard guy to drag down on the first hit. He's only 5-ft., 9-in., but can bowl over...
...union and the University cannot agree on key contract points, the process coud drag on for more than a year, and may even result in a strike, according to labor experts. Furthermore, workers could petition the National Labor Relations Board after one year to decertify the union if a contract is not reached...
Quayle, who shows up as a drag on theRepublican ticket in virtually all the polls,declined invitations to appear on networktelevision and campaigned yesterday in Virginia,one of the safest Republican states where a newpoll showed Bush with a 56-25 lead...
...Bush has not really turned on the voters. Pollsters find that voters are choosing him without enthusiasm, like restaurant patrons picking succotash over turnips. Bush thus remains vulnerable to any event that could cause people to doubt his character or judgment. His running mate, Dan Quayle, is still a drag. Though elections are not decided on the qualities of the vice-presidential candidates, this campaign has the feel of an exceptional one in which significant numbers of voters are disturbed by the possibility of a President Quayle. Some 54% of those questioned in a Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll published...