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This transformation was wrought by Tim Kraft, the Hoosier with a Pancho Villa mustache who two months ago became the President's chief coordinator on political liaison and patronage. Kraft's job is to improve Carter's relations with Demo cratic Party officials and contributors, to help get the President's programs through Congress and to help get him re-elected in 1980. Although Kraft is one of the Pres ident's top staffers, he has re mained almost invisible. White House Correspondent Laurence I. Barrett reports on Kraft at work...
...wake of what he wrought, Jarvis left pain as well as tax relief. California officials faced some brutal choices as they scrambled to figure out how to live with budgets now scheduled to shrink significantly with the beginning of the new fiscal year on July 1, when Proposition 13 takes effect (unless one of the five court challenges that have already been made proves successful...
Computer mistakes--at least officially--wrought havoc with the ambitions of more than a few pre-professional types, as test scores for both the law and medical school admissions tests behaved erratically. Admissions officers at many schools decided to ignore the test results; the reactions of scores of seniors went, fortunately, unrecorded...
Working for nearly three years over yellow legal pads at his San Clemente estate, Nixon produced 1.5 million words. Even more surprising, he then went willingly, if painfully, through an editing process that slashed those hard-wrought words to fewer than 500,000−a throw-away of presidential verbiage that must make historians blink. Still, the final product is a book of 1,184 pages. And though Nixon had research help from his staff, as well as from writers who prepared drafts of some sections, the result, says Editor in Chief Robert Markell of Grosset & Dunlap, "is very much...
...South Carolina's ex-U.S. Senator Robert Barnwell Rhett saw the future and found it tolerable. By the year 2000, he prophesied, the South would have "established an empire and wrought out a civilization that has never been equaled or surpassed−a civilization teeming with orators, poets, philosophers, statesmen and historians equal to those of Greece and Rome." Five years later the Confederacy was dead. The only thing the South never lost was its capacity to provoke intoxicated visions and literary hyperbole...