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...campaign taught Buchanan a few lessons. For one, he has sold the Mercedes-Benz that earned him so much flak from the "Buy America" crowd. He plans to buy a Pontiac Bonneville as soon as he gets time to shop. In this year's superheated G.O.P. race, that opportunity may come sooner than he thinks...
...General Motors strike that started at an AC Delco plant in Flint, Michigan has now spread to nine more factories that produce some of the company's hottest products. The walkout has idled 30,900 workers. Plants in Pontiac, Lansing, Orion Township, Auburn Hills, and Buick City, Mich., as well as Doraville, Georgia, Janesville, Wisconsin, Ste. Therese, Quebec and Oshawa, Ontario were closed or crippled. The plants assemble cars on which GM is banking heavily, such as the Chevy Lumina and Pontiac Firebird, as well as the popular Chevy Suburban and Blazer sports utility vehicles, says TIME Detroit bureau chief...
...type of compact, one that approximates the flowing, sculpted looks and sheer drivability usually found only in sports and luxury cars -- in short, a kind of Everyman's Porsche. Ford's Contour and Mercury Mystique, Chrysler's Cirrus and Dodge Stratus, and GM's retooled Chevrolet Cavalier and Pontiac Sunfire will feature from 120 to 170 h.p. (vs. 90 or under for many older compacts). Formerly upscale-only features like dual air bags, antilock brakes and automatic mirror controls will be standard, while options include leather interiors, dashboard CD players and special antitheft devices. Prices in this group start...
Everything is just about ready. in Orlando, Florida, painters have finished the massive black and white panels that have transformed the copper dome of the new city hall into a giant soccer ball. Near Detroit, agronomists from Michigan State University have covered the synthetic turf in the Pontiac Silverdome with 1,850 hexagonal chunks of specially grown, soccer-friendly grass. In Palo Alto, California, workers are nearly finished giving Stanford University's venerable stadium a $5 million face-lift...
...start of his journalistic career. At the Pendulum, his hometown paper in East Greenwich, Rhode Island, he alternated coverage of bake sales with exposes of the local police department that led to an FBI probe and the firing of the town's police chief. After more local reporting, in Pontiac, Michigan, he shifted to the nation's capital 15 years ago, and quickly mastered the balancing act required of any Washington correspondent. As TIME's Washington bureau chief Dan Goodgame puts it, "He manages to ask tough questions and write critical stories while maintaining the respect of the top sources...