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...many Americans regarded it as a constructive step. Stanford Professor Robert McAfee Brown, a Presbyterian pastor who served five days in jail after a 1971 demonstration, called Ford's plan "a very gutsy thing," especially since Brown had assumed "the issue was going to be on the back burner for a long time...
...cranking up for a run at their party's 1976 presidential nomination. Illinois Senator Charles Percy, a liberal Republican who had already spent about $180,000 campaigning for the top spot on the party's 1976 slate, said that his candidacy has been put "on the back burner and maybe into the deep freeze." Similarly, other leading Republicans who remained untainted while the Watergate scandal was under way have ironically been victimized by the end of the affair. California Governor Ronald Reagan and New York's Nelson Rockefeller have little chance now for 1976. Indeed, it would...
...Government had no unified negotiating stance on the myriad of details involved in SALT II. "If Henry is working on something," says one high-ranking American arms control expert, "only he, Nixon, Helmut Sonnenfeldt (State Department Counselor) and Alexander Haig know about it. It's on the back, back burner. Nobody here is working on it." Adds a State Department official tartly: "It is not possible to negotiate a comprehensive agreement within the U.S. Government, let alone with the Soviet Union...
...draining heat-robbing sediment from the bottom of the water heater every month. Replace the refrigerator's neoprene door gasket if, when you close it on a piece of paper, it is so loose that you can pull the paper out. Use saucepans that cover an entire burner and use only a few ounces of water to heat vegetables. Total potential savings in an energy-efficient household: $300 a year...
...JANE S. BURNER Scotch Plains...