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...baby strollers that do not jiggle, an airplane with an observation deck, a taxicab with a glass roof, and police uniforms and cars that "don't scare the hell out of kids." His manner is sparky, one part anger to two parts joy, like a more thoughtful, humble Lee lacocca. "Ninety-five per-cent of industrial designers don't design," he says. "They are essentially stylists under the aegis of the marketing department." Stumpf hates the raw, unfriendly interiors of the standard school bus. He hates dull, inexpressive Amtrak locomotives. He hates hermetic, inscrutable electronics. "Things should telegraph their ability...
...hear him tell it, Chrysler Chairman Lee lacocca, 61, wants to run for President about as much as he wants to be seen driving a Ford. "I have no intention at all of entering the funny world of politics," he told reporters in Washington last week. "I don't want to have a mid-career change and bring on a mid-life crisis...
Neither that reluctance nor the fact that lacocca, who most recently described himself as a Republican, has stopped supporters from trying to draft him as the Democratic presidential candidate in 1988. Several Washington political consultants have joined a few Michigan Democrats to form the Draft Lee lacocca Committee Inc. They plan to raise $50,000 during the next two months to investigate the legal barriers to a genuine draft of lacocca. Their cause is complicated by a tradition that says drafts rarely succeed and by election laws in some states that work against getting undeclared and unwilling candidates...
...into the narrative to complain about her respectable poverty, her husband's failure as a businessman, his card playing and carousing. Dave Altschuler is part owner of a music store located in Manhattan's Hippodrome theater. He may not be the city's most aggressive merchant, but even Lee lacocca would have had a hard time making it during the Depression...
...popular, gets great mileage and goes from 0 to 60 in 341 pages. Published last October, lacocca was parked at No. 1 on the best-seller list for 36 weeks. Last week the 2 millionth copy came off the press, a feat bettered by only a few books, including Gone With the Wind and Jonathan Livingston Seagull. The author, who has not promoted the book and assigned most of its profits to charity, is still "awestruck" by the success. "I'm told America loves listening to me, but I love listening to America," says lacocca, who receives about 500 letters...