He's going out with an empty-headed bimbo half his age.

But it had been a long commute - a day and a half, four flights and a boat ride - so I grabbed a book and headed for a canopy just off a beach that belonged to only us.

By the time Wilson left GM, almost half of all US families fell within the middle range of income. Most were headed not by professionals or executives but by skilled and semi-skilled factory workers.