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Died. Charles S. Mott, 97, U.S. auto pioneer and philanthropist; following a severe case of influenza; in Flint, Mich. After moving his family's axle business from upstate New York to Flint in 1907, Mott sold the company to General Motors for shares of G.M. stock. He spent six decades on G.M.'s board of directors and was at one time the company's largest single stockholder. Though legendary for his personal frugality, he established the Charles Stewart Mott Foundation in 1926 to finance education, health and recreation programs, and built it into one of the nation...
...under way in steel imports; Derrick L. Brewster, vice president of Chicago's Inland Steel, forecasts that steel imports will fall 20% this year, to about 14 million tons. Result: about 100,000 cars bought by Americans this year will be assembled by workers in Los Angeles or Flint, Mich., rather than in Wolfsburg or Yokohama, and the steel going into those cars will be rolled at mills in Gary, Ind., or Braddock, Pa., instead of Aachen or Kitakyushu...
...KNOW that the federal government recycles its cancelled checks into toilet tissue? This is one of the smaller gems in O Congress, by Donald Riegle, a congressman from Flint, Michigan. The diary of Riegle's activities between April 1971 and March 1972, it makes many of the standard journalistic (and by now boring) criticisms of Congress. It stabs fiercely at the seniority system by which power accrues to elderly, often senile, men. In Riegle's view, Congress is "a body of followers, not leaders" who pass the buck until public opinion and the press of history stops...
...original sponsor: Richard Nixon. The two men met in Cambridge in 1965, when Riegle, an "upward-bound, goal-directed hot-shot," was at the Harvard Business School. Nixon, in town to hire talent for his New York law firm, encouraged Riegle to run for a congressional seat in Flint, Michigan, then a Democratic stronghold...
...couldn't be pushed around." Consistent with their approval of the President's foreign policies, pro-Nixon panelists strongly oppose McGovern's proposal to reduce defense spending by $32 billion over three years. "In order to keep us a first-class nation," explains Harry Kaiser, a Flint, Mich., truck driver, "there's no way of cutting without affecting our status. Russia is already the No. 1 power...