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...most American of all the country's patriotic shrines: unabashedly showy, technically impressive, evangelically democratic, & erected with private funds--and now privately restored as well, with $70 million from a quarter-billion-dollar treasury raised by a showy, impressive, all-American son of immigrants named Lee Iacocca...
Chrysler Chairman LEE IACOCCA at Duke University, Durham, N.C.: "My class, the class of '46, wasn't too worried about competing in the world. There was hardly anybody to compete with. But the class of '86 had better learn how to compete, because you're living in a very different world. Something else you'd better do better than we have: learn how to balance the books. We're leaving you with a $2 trillion national debt. Along with your own problems and your own bills, you're going to get the privilege of handling some of mine...
Melendez readily admits that has not always been his own best advertisement. "I'm still an extremely shy, insecure, socially inept person," he says. He is leaning back Lee Iacocca-style on a cushion in a closet-sized South House single, packed with electronic gimmickery, file cabinets, and impeccably stacked back copies of The Crimson, The Independent, The Salient, The Gazette, and the Harvard College Forum...
...them, and whom they would prefer right now as a Democratic presidential nominee.* The list included 1984 Presidential Candidates Gary Hart and Jesse Jackson, Arizona Governor Bruce Babbitt, New Jersey Senator Bill Bradley, Delaware Senator Joseph Biden and Missouri Congressman Richard Gephardt, as well as Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca and the right-wing fringe candidate, Lyndon LaRouche...
...billion in assets, General Motors Acceptance Corp. ranks among the largest U.S. financial institutions. In the past two years the assets of Ford Motor Credit Co. have grown 64%, to $31.3 billion, and Chrysler Financial Corp.'s assets have more than tripled, to $15.9 billion. Proclaimed Chrysler Chairman Lee Iacocca at last week's annual shareholders meeting: "We are no longer just a car company. We are a major financial institution...