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...singled out his bill to contain hospital costs; he claims the legislation would save Americans $60 billion over the next five years. Said he: "There will be no clearer test of the commitment of this Congress to the anti-inflation fight." He cited the need for deregulation of the railroad, bus and trucking industries after the successful liberation of the airlines from bureaucratic control...
...first visit to Plains two years ago, the town was mostly elated at its sudden fame. The nine old brick stores on Main Street, some disused for years, had opened hastily with a limited stock of Carter souvenirs, all relentlessly featuring peanuts and grinning teeth. The railroad depot, which had been campaign headquarters, was a welcoming center that offered the admirably unpredictable Miss Lillian for several hours each day of autographs and bracingly candid talk with the few bellwether tourists...
...only white Mississippian ever to visit Detroit, "and I don't want to be the only white man from Mississippi who has been to Detroit twice." Mayor To less Coleman biased Young, who Southern is black, Republicans, tartly Young replied, said, "He can save his railroad fare." To less biased Souther Republicans, Young said, "You all come up here...
...have seemingly become a forum for redress of all things unfair in life. Old judicial barriers that kept people out of court unless they had been personally harmed have been so loosened that not long ago the Supreme Court allowed five George Washington University law students to oppose a railroad-rate surcharge. Why? Because, the students argued, the surcharge would increase the cost of recyclable goods and thus mean more beer cans littering public parks. (They lost.) Conservatives like Yale Law Professor Robert Bork, who was U.S. Solicitor General during the Nixon Administration, understandably worry that "democratic government gets pushed...
...airlifted American oil workers and their families from Abadan, site of Iran's biggest refinery. Chartered Boeing 707s flew in to Isfahan airport. One convoy of 50 cars headed for the Turkish border, another for Iraq. But the majority of evacuees converged on Tehran's airport, despite railroad and domestic airline strikes. Some went to the airport at night to avoid being seen. Shirley and Bill Johnson, a Texas couple who had hired a taxi for the 260-mile journey from Isfahan to Tehran, were asked by their driver, who did not want to be seen transporting foreigners...