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...released last week had Ford trailing by five to eight percentage points, which, if they hold, translate into a Carter landslide. They doubtless reflected news of the previous week-Ford's toughest-marked by the debate loss to Carter and the resignation under fire of Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz...
...SOUTH. Carter has blunted Ford's attempted foray into the region and increased his own leads since the second debate, in part because of the President's mistake on Eastern Europe and the Earl Butz controversy. The Georgian runs ahead in Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee and Florida. Mississippi and Texas lean toward Carter, and a Republican poll now has Carter leading in the Lone Star State 51% to 45%. The contest is neck and neck in Louisiana, but Carter may break out ahead because Democratic Governor Edwin Edwards is putting his organization behind...
...Ohio are leaning slightly to Ford; Carter is hurt in the Buckeye State by voter apathy and Eugene McCarthy. The President has more solid margins in Indiana, Kansas, Michigan, Nebraska and North Dakota. Illinois, Wisconsin and now Iowa-where Ford lost a thin lead last week because of the Butz affair-are rated tossups...
While cleaning out his big, airy corner office, Butz chatted with TIME Correspondent Jerry Hannifin. Two ears of golden Iowa corn-a present from an admirer-glowed on his desk, and the horse collar he brought with him to Washington five years ago still hung on the wall, a reminder of his years of plowing fields as a boy on a 160-acre farm in Noble County, Ind. Said he: "I've paid a tremendous price. I'm going back to Purdue, where I studied and taught. I'm going to be an adjunct professor of some...
...combined. Walters' debut was as crisp as a new $100 bill. That, incidentally, is about what she makes for every minute on the newscast, and she earned it. Walters fluffed nary a line, and even had two modest opening-night scoops. Newly deposed Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz suggested by telephone shortly before air time that Jimmy Carter should follow his example and resign for using lewd language. Egyptian President Anwar Sadat disclosed in a taped interview via satellite that he had been asked to send troops into Lebanon. "1 must tell you quite frankly, Bah-bar-ah," said...