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Moreover, while De Gaulle's foreign policy (including his snubbing of the U.S. and courting of the Communist bloc) is generally popular with the voters, the real issue this time is in the Frenchman's portefeuille. His pocketbook is noticeably thinner, in large part because De Gaulle has not done much recently for France's economy. Among Common Market countries, France trails all but Luxembourg in the growth of industrial production, while its cost of living (which rose 14% last year) is the highest in Europe. The unemployment rate, which for years was one of Europe...
...Morality Gap." On pocketbook issues, Brown has aroused even more discontent. State property taxes have increased twice as much as personal income; welfare costs have soared 113.7% in the past eight years. As Reagan charged during an NBC Meet the Press confrontation with Brown, the Governor's administrators automat-ica'ly reach for state and federal subsidies as the instant aspirin for almost any problem. Despite such immediate and debatable issues, the campaign (which Bob Hope has called "How the West Was Won, starring Ronald Reagan and Pat Brown") has largely echoed and re-echoed extravagant personal attacks...
Panic Peddlers. After the constitutional issue, the most powerful surface argument concerns the pocketbook. "This is largely an economic issue," says Republican Craig Hosmer of California, who opposed Title IV. "A home is the only major asset most people have. Whether it is a fact or not, people fear that when Negroes move in, property values go down...
...annual turnout is dwarfed by the 890,000 cars produced under British Motors' five current makes (Austin, Morris, MG, Riley and Wolseley), Jaguar will give B.M.C. needed strength in the luxury market. To make the most of its new ability to sell to every pocketbook, British Motors plans to increase overall output by 1970 to 1,500,000, about what Germany's Volkswagen, the present European leader, already produces...
Cassius' biggest pain was in his pocketbook. His share of the purse was only $100,000-the smallest payoff to a defending champion since 1952, when Jersey Joe Walcott got $92,000 for fighting Ezzard Charles for the fourth time...