First, Edward Lorenz, the father of the “butterfly effect” and founder of chaos theory, is dead at 90.
Second, in something virtually unreported in the mainstream media, former United Autoworkers President Douglas Fraser is dead at 81. Fraser guided the UAW through a tough time in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Lee Iacocca publicly credited him as being part of how Chrysler was able to re-emerge as a car company with the 1979 bailout.
Fraser also worked hard to get Southern auto plants unionized, and was instrumental and tireless in his efforts to get Japanese carmakers to open plants here.
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