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Brown has an even bigger hole at quarterback. Senior Rank Landers was the Ivy's second-rated passer last year, but last spring he signed a major league baseball contract with the Minnesota Twins, a decision which made him ineligible for any Ivy League athletic program...
...early '70s, organized labor generally fulfilled an unwritten compact with its members by getting them more of everything. With the implicit partnership of employers, who often agreed to an expensive settlement rather than risk a painful strike, union leaders regularly won new contracts for the rank and file that guaranteed more pay, better benefits, improved working conditions and additional days...
...wage and benefit concessions they have been forced to accept. Says Bill Bowers, vice president of United Auto Workers Local 1112: "The people in this country expected us to do something to help the auto industry and the consumer. But the contract that the union brought back to the rank and file was distasteful to 48% of our members. It left a bad taste in our mouth." Bernie Brown, the plant personnel director, agrees. Says he: "When you have had an adversary relationship with the UAW for 45 years, it's very difficult to change...
...horse who won $1 million in purses was worth $1 million as a stallion. Today a million-dollar winner is worth $20 million at stud. One outstanding example is Northern Dancer, whose offspring Sangster often buys. Almost gelded because of his questionable conformation and rank temperament, the 1964 Kentucky Derby winner is now the world's greatest living superstud: 85 of his progeny (one in five) are stakes winners. His going rate is $300,000, but his 14 get at Keeneland were sold for an average of $888,571 each. The 21-year-old still covers 40 mares each...
Kemp presided over a two-hour discussion. Letter writing and rank-and-file pressure on Congress, the group decided, would be the principal tactics. The rich (1982 receipts: $4 million) National Conservative Political Action Committee will send letters to every Congressman, reminding each of the organization's campaign-funding clout. Viguerie will use the mail to deputize as lobbyists 4,500 conservatives outside Washington. The group agreed, however, to walk that fine, perhaps imaginary line between disagreement with and disloyalty to the President. Insists Supply-Side Apostle Roberts: "There were more Reaganites in that room than there...