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...money to high-priority programs, among them public health, transportation and environment. Why did Mills produce a revenue-sharing plan now? Partly, it seems, to please Democrats in state and local government and thus enhance his possible presidential candidacy next year, or at least his kingmaking clout in Miami...
...theoretically one of the most powerful in Washington, but its actual clout has varied widely with the man filling it. McCracken, on leave from the University of Michigan, was one of its less mighty occupants. Gracious and courtly, he once asserted: "I'm a professor, not a politician." No infighter, he was elbowed aside in policymaking by Budget Boss George Shultz. When Treasury Secretary John Connally replaced Shultz as top economic-policy man, McCracken rode Connally's coattails within the Government by arguing -well before Stein-for an incomes policy. Publicly, however, McCracken became known for doggedly insisting...
Traditionally supporters of freer trade, many of labor's most liberal leaders have made a startling turnabout and put their powerful clout behind openly protectionist legislation in Congress. The recent converts include the electrical workers, the rubber workers and the machinists. Their feelings were vented at length and with loudness at last week's AFL-CIO convention. The Amalgamated Clothing Workers passed out pamphlets showing a man wearing imported clothes and headlined: HOW TO DRESS FOR A DEPRESSION. Banners strung up at Bal Harbour's Hotel Americana urged union members...
...whites who still live in Detroit. Under citywide integration, the committee points out, white children would be a 35% minority; under a metropolitan plan, they would remain 80% of the school population. That, of course, is precisely the reason that some blacks oppose the plan: it could dilute their clout in P.T.A. meetings and with school boards...
...been one of Daley's most outspoken critics, the mayor was on hand to help open Black Expo. Awkwardly clasping Jackson's hand in a "soul handshake," Daley forced a smile for the television cameras, then toured the exhibits. His presence testified to the political and economic clout that Black Expo had been set up to evoke...