Business: Fraser a Shoo-in

When it comes to internal politics, the United Auto Workers is the Switzerland of the labor world—no coups, no bareknuckled infighting, just a neat, orderly succession from one leadership to the next. This relatively halcyon condition dates from the late 1940s, when Walter Reuther, the progressive ideologue who headed the union for 24 years, built a durable power base. After Reuther's death in an airplane crash in 1970, two men vied for his mantle: Leonard Woodcock, the intellectual chief of the union's General Motors division, and Reuther's apparent favorite, Chrysler Department Head Douglas...

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