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Reagan's strength lies mostly with older and more affluent voters and those in the South. He lags behind Carter among women, union members, blacks and other minorities. But Reagan does just as well as Carter among independents, and he has attracted the backing of one out of four Democratic voters. On the other hand, Reagan is not the first choice of a substantial number of Republicans and independents; 39% would prefer Gerald Ford. More than half of all voters think that Reagan is too conservative to attract enough independent and Democratic votes to win the presidency, and most...
...profits in the vortex of soaring interest rates. A Detroit magazine editor, for example, now sends his savings across the border to invest in the Canadian Bank of Nova Scotia, where six-month certificates yield 17.5% and up, or 2% more than is available Stateside. Two daughters of an affluent Birmingham, Mich., physician used $14,000 in low-interest Government student loans (see box) to invest in real estate and bank certificates. One of the most popular gambits in the new scramble for cheap loans is borrowing on the cash value of whole life insurance policies. People can often...
...violent civil disobedience of Thoreau, Gandhi and King has a sacred aura in this book, and it is vin dicated by its political and spiritual triumphs. But when the affluent college students of the '60s seize the revelations of the civil rights movement, the drama and courage of the protest, the transcendent irreverence of the beat generation, Viorst sees pretension; there is validity to the rancor, but will anyone...
...later claimed, he was disillusioned with the U.S. because of the Viet Nam War, Watergate and what he learned of the CIA's activities. To get back at the U.S., said Boyce, he worked out a plot with Andrew Daulton Lee, 27, a teen-age chum from the affluent Southern California town of Palos Verdes who had been convicted of drug dealing and was then on the run. The two schemed to supply top secret material to an agent in the Soviet Union's Mexico City embassy...
...abundant American harvests arrived just in time to satisfy a meat-hungry world. More affluent and more demanding consumers around the globe wanted beef, pork and poultry rather than simply bread and cereals. As a result, the vast majority of American agricultural production is for animal rather than human consumption. Ninety percent of the corn crop is fed to livestock, while soybeans are the largest single source of protein for animals...