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Chocolate cake, a bottle of Califor nia champagne and a lot of razzing greeted Republican Presidential Candi date Ronald Reagan when he reached 65 last week. Reporters on the campaign trail offered application forms for Social Security and Medicare, and composed a ditty to the tune of California, Here I Come. Sample lyrics: "Senior citizens, I'm with you/ Guarantee my boodle too/ Voluntary, actuary, that's all bum/ Social Security here I come." Reagan, who is in fact a voluble critic of the current Social Security system and says he does not intend to claim the benefits...
President Ford does not have to worry about losing his job to Ronald Reagan if the former Governor of Califor nia maintains his stand that equal rights for women is encouraging attitudes toward sex and sex differences akin to those of dogs...
Although he claims not to enjoy all the publicity, Shurcliff has developed a sure public relations touch. When Transportation Secretary Alan Boyd announced that transcontinental SST's might fly subsonic over the populated eastern half of the country and then supersonic from Chicago to Califor- nia, Shurcliff immediately wrote to western political leaders pointing out how little the SST's proponents seemed to care for the west's peace and quiet...
Just in case any readers doubt the depth of its study, the Journal explains that "Managing Editor Bruce Clerke has spent more of her time in Califor nia than in New York during these recent months of preparation. Then Staffers Susan, Lyn, Poppy, Mary, Lois, Margaret and Trudy followed to see for themselves...
California residents have long taken pride in the quality and quantity of their state's higher education and in their willingness to spend vast sums of public money to keep it as good as it is. But when Ronald Reagan became Califor nia's Governor this month, he came face to face with two striking facts: a budget deficit that could reach $400 million in the next fiscal year, and an expensive complex of colleges and universities that consumes about $400 million a year and yet does not charge students a single penny of tuition.* Putting...