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...Kenosha, Wis., where it makes Alliance and Encore cars. Assemblers among the factory's 5,800 workers earn an average of $13.44 an hour, vs. $13.07 in a comparable GM facility. Last week AMC's management, which wants concessions from the United Auto Workers to make the ancient lakefront factory more productive, vowed to close the plant by 1986 unless the union agrees to several changes, including wage reductions...
...important inspiration to America's approach to housing, the Wright inspiration. One of Monaghan's other planned structures at Ann Arbor sounds less salutary. He intends to put up Wright's "Golden Beacon," a 56-story skyscraper that was designed in 1956 for the Chicago lakefront but never built. Its design is to be adapted to accommodate Domino's office needs, a move that may result not only in an anachronism but a stylistic pastiche. "I don't want to turn the place into a Disneyland," Monaghan insists. "I just want to pay tribute...
...intently as the teacher fires off volleys of French. Not a word of English is spoken. The same spirit of curiosity and dedication seems to flow through other rooms at Lincoln Park High School in Chicago, where students from the ghetto mingle with those from glass palaces on the lakefront. Says French Teacher Maureen Breen: "Something is very definitely happening in the air once these kids walk through those doors. We can all feel...
...Hawks and the basketball Bulls, of which he was part owner. The Wirtz-Norris interests gained such a stranglehold over boxing-promoting 90% of all championship bouts in the U.S. between 1949 and 1955-that a federal court ordered their International Boxing Clubs dissolved. Owner of a string of lakefront luxury high-rises that reportedly earned him more than $100 million a year, Wirtz once boasted, "I don't know how much I'm worth, and I don't care...
...turnout in larger numbers than whites. These conditions happily obtained in Chicago's April 12th mayoral election, gave Harold Washington a more than 42,000 vote edge over Republican Bernard Epton, out of more than 1,3 million votes cast. Upper middle-class and professional whites in the Lakefront wards kept their own racial feelings in check enough to give Harold Washington some 20 percent of the total white vote, ensuring him some 52 percent of the city wide total...