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Ford's weaknesses, however, are balanced by some farm-belt strengths. Butz still enjoys great popularity among some farmers; so too does Kansan Robert Dole. The President has also won points with farmers by urging a large increase in estate-tax exemptions to benefit owners of family farms. Further, Carter lost some standing among farmers two weeks ago for doing a soft-shoe shuffle on embargoes, at first ruling them out, then saying that he would permit them in the event of a catastrophic crop failure...
...born-again interest in political action will benefit Carter, of course. Paul Henry, professor at the conservative Protestant Calvin College in Grand Rapids, Mich., and Republican chairman in Ford's home county, argues that "Carter has been able to exploit the religious issue because he speaks the language more freely." But Henry and other evangelicals believe that many of the conservative Protestants' votes will eventually go to Episcopalian Ford, who professes to be something of an evangelical and whose son Michael attends the evangelical Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary in South Hamilton, Mass. Ford has wooed the conservative Christian...
...extent that blue-collar workers vote on the basis of Catholic or ethnic issues, Ford could benefit. In addition, he hopes to capitalize on the slowdown in inflation. But blue-collar voters seem more concerned about unemployment than inflation. Says Mike LaVelle, the Chicago Tribune's blue-collar columnist: "Jobs are really it. Carter doesn't have to do anything but keep pointing out the percentage of unemployed." Thus, the bread-and-butter worries created by the recession stand to produce more labor votes for Carter than all of the pleas of union leaders...
Aspirant players who wish to improve their game or their court manners without benefit of Eastern philosophy are free (at $200 for five days' instruction, plus room and board) to try Gallwey's most eminent competition. By California standards, it is just down the road, at Coto de Caza near Laguna Beach, a 5,000-acre mission-cum-tennis college presided over by Vic Braden, 47. Though Braden bears a faint resemblance to a vest-pocket Buddha and has a graduate degree in psychology, his methods epitomize two current hopes of Western civilization?a sense of humor and trust...
Actually, the betting in Detroit continues to be that there will be no strike, or at worst a very short one. The U.A.W. is concentrating this year on greater job security and a larger supplemental unemployment-benefit fund, rather than on wage boosts. Such preoccupation reflects the auto workers' experience during the recent recession, at the bottom of which 275,000 were on layoff. Woodcock even hinted last week that he might keep workers on the job without a contract if agreement has not been reached by Sept. 14, but seems close...