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Anderson started in the oil business in 1941, when he bought a small refinery in New Mexico using $50,000 of borrowed capital. By 1962 Anderson was chairman of the executive committee and the largest Atlantic stockholder following Atlantic's merger with Anderson-owned Honda...
...labor leaders' clout with their membership is waning - an ominous portent for next year's heavy calendar of union bargaining. The VW strike is also unsettling other foreign firms that are thinking of starting plants in the U.S., notably Japan's automaking Toyota, Nissan (Datsun) and Honda. Says one Japanese automan: "If U.S. workers ask to get even with General Motors and Ford right away, I'm afraid no company will come here...
...warning, it would not be a good omen for the front-wheel-drive cars that they are preparing to bring out over the next two years. Americans already are buying hundreds of thousands of front-wheel-drive cars imported from abroad, including Volkswagen's Rabbit, Honda's Civic and the Ford Fiesta. Consumers Union found no fault with these cars, which it says passed the same tests that the Omni-Horizon flunked. Nor did Consumers Union express any doubts about the concept of front-wheel drive; indeed, it said a properly designed front-wheel-drive car can handle...
...Honda, The lover of whom...
...recreations are modest enough: a lakefront cabin, a 36-ft. Chris-Craft and a Honda cycle, "a great bike, with a windshield, cigarette lighter and a cruise control." A somewhat more comfortable concert schedule ? just over 100 dates, cut down from the 260 Bob and the Silver Bullet Band played in 1975 ? allows time for a touch of reflection. "I'd like to be more like B.B. King, become more sophisticat ed," Seger muses. "Maybe I'll just make records after a while, write songs or produce. After all, I don't know how much longer...