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...Florida, Republican William Cramer poured nearly $100,000 into commercials. His opponent, State Senator Lawton Chiles, set out on a 1,000-mile hike through Florida, which captured everyone's imagination and appeared regularly on the evening news. Chiles walked into the Senate seat virtually free of charge. Plainly, no one should overestimate the political magic...
Rebuffed by Congress in his attempts to hike taxes on leaded gasoline. President Nixon last week issued an executive order that all federally owned vehicles must use no-lead or low-lead gas. His theory is excellent; such fuels reduce hydrocarbon emissions polluting the air by as much as 20%. But in effect, Washington was merely setting a good example. The Federal Government's 600,000 cars burn only one-half of 1% of the nation's yearly consumption of 85 billion gallons of gas-and 276,000 of those official cars have high-compression engines that cannot...
...Administration's efforts to reunite the bitterly divided Republican Party in Florida failed and Rep. William Cramer, a shoo-in before his primary fight with Harrold Carswell, lost to Democratic State Sen. Lawton Chiles, a political unknown who eschewed TV commercials for a highly publicized hike across the state. "Walkin' Lawton's" running mate, State Sen. Reubin Askew, also won, ending the stormy political career of Gov. Claude Kirk...
...Tiring progressively on the hike back (I was up most of the previous night), I remember to stop off to see the tutor who is giving the Dunster House course. I want to ask him if I must attend the first meeting. (It conflicts with another of my classes.) He is glad to see me, since he has already winnowed his list down to 18 names. After interviewing the owners of these names, he will cut the list down to 13. He wants to interview me. After a few incoherent replies to his questions, I ask if I can return...
...shipping for three weeks this summer, paralyzing the foreign trade from which Britain earns its living. They want a 7% basic wage increase, and as much as 45% more in minimum overtime pay. Miners, who got a 10% raise in October, are now pressing for a 33⅓% hike; local government laborers are demanding a raise of at least 20% on top of an increase last fall. Some 350,000 farm workers want a 37% boost and 320,000 teachers, who won an average 11% increase after a 3-month strike last winter, are after another 37%. Even...