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Carol J. Moola Bloomfield Hills, Mich...
Last Friday in Dearborn, Mich., the U.A.W's 26-member international executive board and 350-member steering committee picked a softspoken, deliberate man as Fraser's replacement. He is Union Vice President Owen Bieber, 52, director of the U.A.W's General Motors department. Bieber's nomination is subject only to ratification at the U.A.W's convention in May, which is certain. Lobbying among union officers for the nomination began in earnest in September among Bieber, Secretary-Treasurer Raymond Majerus, 58, and Donald Ephlin, 57, also a vice president and the head of the union...
...near Beverly Hills have enough machines to give every student access. And in areas where parents know and care about computers, like California's Silicon Valley or Boston's ring of electronics-oriented suburbs, public schools are using computers in most of the regular curriculum. Ann Arbor, Mich., which has been wired up for more than a decade, has 200 micros in its 26 elementary schools, 50 in its five intermediate schools, and 52 in the three senior high schools. Further, as more and more couples acquire low-priced home computers, often with the express purpose of giving...
...along 1-75, the highway that runs north from Florida, suburbs branch off, filled with people who, for the most part, found what they came for but expected more for their kids. Near the town of Taylor, Mich., in a house with a Roosevelt commemorative plate on a rail above the table, someone on television is announcing the worst year for car sales since 1961. Lee lacocca, the chairman of Chrysler, insists he is excited about next year. No one listens. The people in the house are talking about neighbors who went to Houston or Tulsa looking for work...
...September, former General Motors Executive James McLernon resigned as president of Volkswagen of America and was replaced by Noel Phillips, a marketing executive from South Africa. With sales running far behind projections, the company has canceled plans to build cars at a second U.S. plant in Sterling Heights, Mich., and has put the $300 million facility, which it never used, up for sale...