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...town was roped off from reality. The townsfolk, who believed in Carter back when the rest of the country laughed, had been preparing for the historic event for days. Bank Manager Marvin Nation was tacking up bunting on his building. Billy Carter was leaning on a red pickup truck, giving an interview to a reporter from Rio de Janeiro. The ladies of Plains, in best Southern tradition, had baked up a storm. Rosalynn Carter's mother produced her choice butternut cake a day early for fear she'd be too excited on Election Day. Contractor Robert Abbett...
Entering election year '76, there were 36 Democratic Governors to only 13 Republicans and one independent, Maine's James Longley. In the 14 contests decided Tuesday, the Democrats triumphed in nine and the Republicans in five-a pickup of one statehouse for the Democrats. A prostatehood candidate won office in Puerto Rico. A generally youthful group of G.O.P. hopefuls scored impressive wins in Delaware, Illinois and Vermont. The Republicans also re-elected their popular chief executive in Indiana, and returned to office for the third straight two-year stint Archconservative Meldrim Thomson of New Hampshire on his single...
...coordinator of the Somerville Saves ecycling program, I am often asked if the Bottle Bill represents a threat to Somerville's first-in-the-nation, municipally-operated home pickup recycling program. People from other cities and towns ask, "Will our voluntary recycling programs be hurt if Question 6 passes...
...much? After the booming 9.2% pace of the first quarter, the growth rate slipped to 4.5% in the second. Clearly seeking to mitigate possible bad news about the third quarter this week, President Ford said that the July-September rate would be lower still-"about 4%"-but predicted a pickup to 5% or more in the last quarter. If the July-September rate turns out to be 3% or even less, as some economists are forecasting, the Democrats will have further ammunition for their charge that the Republicans should have adopted more expansionist tax and spending programs last summer. Indeed...
...Lange plays a sexually hip chick, a movie starlet who literally drifts into the picture as a castaway from a wrecked yacht on which she was cruising with a movie producer who had promised her a part. Once she gets over the shock of Kong's first spectacular pickup, she treats him like all the apelike movie moguls she has had to fend off. She tries helplessness ("I can't stand heights"), anger ("You goddam chauvinist pig ape"), some impromptu analysis after striking out at her captor ("It's a sign of insecurity, like when you knock...