Dan Quayle

Former Vice President Dan Quayle and ex-Notre Dame football coach Lou Holtz are joining with the chief executive of K2 Inc. in a bid to raise as much as $500 million in the second-largest initial public offering of a "blank check" shell company. Palm Desert-based Heckmann Corp., which has no operations, plans to sell 62.5 million units for $8 each, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing Tuesday.

Vice presidential candidates: An article in Friday's Section A on choosing running mates said George H.W. Bush selected Dan Quayle in 1992. Bush chose the then-senator from Indiana to be on the Republican ticket in 1988. They ran for reelection in 1992.

Robert Teeter, veteran Republican pollster and campaign strategist credited with proposing Dan Quayle as President George H.W. Bush's running mate and later blamed for losing the 1992 Bush-Quayle bid for a second term, has died. He was 65. Teeter, Bush's senior polling advisor in 1988 and campaign chairman in 1992, died Sunday night of cancer at his home in Ann Arbor, Mich.

Fairly or unfairly, former Vice President Dan Quayle never shook off a reputation for being dense. Now his head truly is made of stone. A marble bust of Quayle was unveiled in a Capitol Rotunda ceremony. Speaker after speaker -- including Vice President Dick Cheney and former President Bush -- predicted history would treat Quayle better than comics did.