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While Reuther was a social activist, Hoffa focused on the exercise of power. The U.A.W. was organizing auto factories that had thousands of workers; Hoffa focused on small trucking companies with a simple two-step campaign. He would threaten to bomb employers' trucks if they didn't enroll in his union. Then he carried out the threat. It got results. His organizers took a cut of the dues and initiation fees of every new member. It was a franchise scheme that attracted Mafiosi and created a feudal structure of warlords...
...other, these 20 people influenced lives far beyond the business world. Indeed, TIME defines the business realm broadly, including anyone who works for a living, and our list extends to the world of sports and the National Football League's Pete Rozelle, organized labor and the United Auto Workers' Walter Reuther, and even organized crime's Lucky Luciano, whose syndicate was certainly better managed than was Al Capone...
...themes working through the stories, it is disillusionment that seems to cast its shadow most often upon the main characters. In "Willing," an actress finds herself without money and fame, moves back home and takes up with an auto mechanic: "It had taken on the shape of a terrible mistake. She hadn't been given the proper tools to make a real life with...She'd been given a can of gravy and a hairbrush and told `There you go.'" In "Real Estate," a woman named Ruth becomes so dissatisfied with her life that she finds metaphysical consolation only...
...inspiration, but these days skirts by the likes of Hussein Chalayan, Karl Lagerfeld and Marc Jacobs are looking distinctly fuller and wider. It's now possible to wear a twin set and full pleated skirt without irony. (The poodle skirt, however, is still out of the question.) Auto designers are also beginning to use some of the hallmark motifs of the midcentury cars. Besides the fins planned for the Cadillac, the 1999 Mustang has triangular wind scoops on the side reminiscent of the 1964 model, and Ford is reintroducing the Thunderbird...
ALABAMA Singing Lessons from An Auto Company...