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...Massachusetts constituency drastically changed by redistricting. Frank once likened running in the district, 70% of whose voters had been represented by Heckler, to "acting out a speaking part in my own mugging." But he put together a highly effective organization that spent around $1.2 million and tirelessly denounced Heck ler's votes for Reagan's economic policies. Heckler wound up spending more than $600,000, but could not overcome the effects of unemployment in places like Fall River...
...make chairs interesting is an extraordinary accomplishment," said Mel the Booksel- ler, who frequents the corner booth near Tommy's jukebox for most of each...
...trying to distance himself from Lance. Aides insist this is not the case. Says one: "He is just trying to show that he has no intention of interfering in the investigation." Presidential aides also say that Carter and Lance have not yet gotten together to discuss the comptrol ler's probe, though Carter was briefed on it last week by Treasury Secretary Michael Blumenthal...
These and other problems are scheduled for public airing on Capitol Hill in the wake of the Washington Post story. Wisconsin Democrat William Proxmire, chairman of the Senate Banking Com mittee, has announced that he will call Comptroller Smith to testify about what Proxmire called the comptrol ler's "failure to do a vigorous enough job on bank regulation." In the House, New York Democrat Benjamin S. Rosenthal, chairman of a Government operations subcommittee, will hold hearings this week on the adequacy of federal examinations of banks. He plans to call representatives of the comptroller's office, Citibank...
...anyone who wanted to do harm to the President could get much more valuable information about his schedule simply by reading a local newspaper. Besides, in a real emergency, the agents guarding Ford talk back and forth on a special channel that they feel sure is secure against eavesdroppers. ler. In the latest California poll, taken in August among Republicans, Ford leads Reagan, 54% to 45%, but Pollster Mervin Field regards Ford's lead as uncomfortably thin...