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When Detroit's Jefferson Avenue assembly plant rolled out its first Chrysler in 1925, there were 56 optimistic American automakers. Along with familiar names such as Ford, Chevrolet and Cadillac were ones that have now become quaint, like Stutz Bearcat, Reo and Jordan. This year another new car is coming off the Jefferson Avenue assembly line. But today's Detroit is far more sober about its debut. Only four U.S. auto companies remain, and two of those, American Motors and Chrysler, are in danger of going the way of the Stutz Bearcat...
...these late summer days, Detroit's automakers are bustling to complete billion-dollar programs that they hope will turn the fortunes of their industry. The Jefferson Avenue plant, for example, is daily turning out 400 new Dodge Aries, Chrysler's front-wheel-drive K-car that will determine whether the company survives as a major automobile producer...
...holding his time-consuming job as a journalist. Coleman kept the pressure on with phone calls every week. Chapters and suggestions circulated through the mails, and an entire draft was completed just after Labor Day, 1979. Coleman read it and a few weeks later checked into Washington's Jefferson Hotel, where for a week of 18-hour days he and Broder went over the manuscript line by line. "His fingerprints are on every damn sentence," says the columnist with appreciation. "This book is as much Jonathan Coleman's as it is mine...
...shape did her in. The Susan B. Anthony dollar, heralded as a boon to bank tellers and store clerks, turned out to be a bane. Looking and feeling too much like a quarter, she may fare less well than the poker-chip-size Eisenhower dollar and the Jefferson $2 bill. Production of the nickel and copper-alloyed coin has been "temporarily postponed," says the U.S. Mint. Of the 846 million Susan B.s already minted, only 300 million are in circulation, with Susan B. dollar 30 million-a relative trickle-being added each month. The mint is thinking of changing Susan...
Still the gamier, scandalous side of presidential families most concerns and entertains Americans. Thomas Jefferson, that prince of the Enlightenment, left the 19th century muttering about his illegitimate children by Sally Hemings, and about his nephews Lilburne and Isham Lewis, who murdered a slave on the Kentucky frontier. Andrew Jackson's wife Rachel was widely satirized as a country clod who smoked a pipe. Mary Todd Lincoln, a sad and slightly unhinged woman, went on shopping sprees that left her $27,000 in debt by 1864. Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt suffered posthumous humiliations at the hands of their...