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...spending level just below the top, money counted very heavily. Of the 33 Senators elected last Tuesday, 27 outspent their opponents, frequently by wide margins in close races. Says Fred Wertheimer, president of Common Cause: "Anyone who argues that money was not a crucial factor in this election is not really looking at what happened." Several political analysts estimate that the ability of Republican incumbents to raise more cash than Democratic challengers held Democratic gains in the House to 26 seats, from perhaps 40 that might have switched if outlays had been more even, and prevented a loss...
...position to know a fact that Deep Throat told Woodward in early November 1973: "One or more of the [White House] tapes contained deliberate erasures." Others in a position to know were Nixon, his secretary Rose Mary Woods and White House Aides Stephen Bull and the late J. Fred Buzhardt. Haig had access to all the other information that Deep Throat fed or confirmed to Woodward, Dean claims. According to Dean, Haig probably would have been available for all the meetings described by Woodward in All the President's Men, with one noteworthy exception; Haig's "character" fits...
...denies that the strong dollar is stunting growth in the U.S. Nearly one-sixth of the economy depends on exports. It is estimated that each $10 billion in the trade deficit increases the jobless rate by .7%, or more than 500,000 people. C. Fred Bergsten, director of Washington's Institute for International Economics, believes that "the trade deficit is the biggest single factor pushing the economy down." Building new trade barriers, however, would only sap the economy further by propping up sickly industries, raising prices for consumers and inviting reprisals from other countries...
...infidelity but incest no less, between an uncle (Sean Connery) and his niece (Betsy Brantley), who are on a climbing holiday in the Swiss Alps in the 1930s. Their guide (Lambert Wilson) restores them to moral health, but nothing can rescue the movie from the prissy pictorialism of Director Fred Zinnemann (in a big step down from High Noon and A Nun's Story) and the frigid portentousness of the script...
...Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions and financial aid, spent last year exploring similar questions by meeting with students over meals...