Word: rockford
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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When Chrysler shareholders gather this week for the beleaguered automaker's annual meeting at the Clock Tower Inn outside Rockford, Ill., they are expected to ratify a historic change in the management of American corporations. Among the 20 nominees for the board of directors is Douglas A. Fraser, 63, president of the United Auto Workers union. Never before has a representative of Big Labor joined the board of a major U.S. company...
...thinking man's candidate, voicing unorthodox ideas that defy easy liberal-conservative classification. Last week John Bayard Anderson, 58, pushed his political heresy to the extreme by taking on the two-party system itself. His thick shock of white hair glistening under TV lights, the Congressman from Rockford, Ill., announced that he was abandoning the race for the Republican nomination and would run for the White House as an independent. His mellifluous orator's voice slowing for emphasis, he asserted: "I am confident the legal obstacles can be overcome and that indeed I will remain as an independent...
Once thoroughly married to Keke, Anderson followed a standard route into politics: law practice, state's attorney in Illinois, Congressman from the state's 16th District centered in his home town of Rockford. He started as a hard-line conservative; in 1966 he got a rating of zero from the liberal Americans for Democratic Action. He started to change in 1968, after the riots that followed the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. shocked him into a realization of the depth of social turmoil in the U.S. He won votes for an open-housing bill with a ringing...
...hope doesn't win elections, and Anderson must break through somewhere, and soon. Anderson is aiming to melt the party lines into the coalition that he needs. If not, he'll wear the "likable loser" back to Rockford, Illinois, before the winter turns to spring...
...district Anderson represents is American heartland, the northwest corner of Illinois, where the farming is good and the biggest city, Rockford, has a population of 272,000. Anderson has been the Congressman here since 1960, and he has served his constituents and party well...