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...Stance. The Jackson campaign does not lack for funds. He expects to have raised and spent about $1,000,000 by early April, half of it in Florida. His television and press exposure in Florida is excellent; he has some strong labor backing, and important elements in Governor Reubin Askew's organization are supporting him. Jackson still stands at only 5% in the national polls, but in the last Quayle poll, taken in Florida in late December, he rose from 6% to 12%, only seven points behind Muskie (though the front runner, George Wallace, had a commanding...
Uphill Fight. Florida votes one week later, and the Jackson organization argues that a win is possible there. Aided by many of Governor Reubin Askew's key field workers, Jackson is strong and deeply grounded. He also has natural allies in the state's aerospace industry and a Jewish community grateful for his shrill arguments for more military aid to Israel. After Florida, the script becomes less precise. Most professionals give him very little chance of taking the nomination, and he is aware of that judgment. "It's hard to know how the building blocks are going...
...second case of anti-Big Boy politics, the voters of Florida overwhelmingly approved a new state corporate income tax proposed by Democratic Governor Reuben Askew. This came despite massive efforts made against the tax by Florida banks and corporations, including the DuPont Company. The banks went so far as to enclose a piece of anti-tax campaign literature in every bank statement mailed out in the state shortly before the election. The voters refused to respond to the pressure...
...Idaho mining town, he flourished from 1907 in London and Paris as the friend of Joyce and D.H. Lawrence, the discoverer of Frost, the teacher of Eliot (who dedicated The Waste Land to him) and even of Yeats. But sometime in the 1930s something went tragically askew. The man Eliot called "the greatest poet alive" lapsed into an aging crank, teasing out nutty monetary theories, making Fascist noises about "international Jewry" as "the true enemy," stuffing junk and glories into a multilingual magpie epic called The Cantos. During World War II he made pro-Axis broadcasts from Rome. Accused...
...fact, what the court has begun to do -and not for the first time in its history -is redress the power balance among branches of government, which many critics felt the aggressive Warren Court knocked askew. Except in the criminal area, most of the individual rights won under the Warren Court will stand. But if there are to be further innovations, many aggrieved Americans and new interest groups will have to look in another direction, most often to their elected representatives. The question remains whether those representatives are prepared to respond...