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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...week's voting, uncommitted delegates who really favor one candidate or the other were allocated to their favorites. This process reduced the pool of genuinely uncommitted delegates to 67, brought Ford's total to 1,012 and Reagan's to 921, with 259 delegates yet to be chosen (see chart...
London's Daily Express called her Wood Nymph, but Natalie Wood, consulting her astrological chart (Cancer), said she's a moonchild. Then the Express rolled out its fashion layout, in which Actress Wood, disdaining the nymphic and childish, opted for something very Capone-ish. After that, it was back to rehearsals for a TV special, with Lord Olivier playing Big Daddy and Natalie doing a feline Cat on a Hot Tin Roof...
...political career. After a string of five primary losses to Reagan, climaxed by a defeat in Nebraska last week, he needs a victory in Michigan as well as Maryland to slow the challenger's momentum and narrow his 468-318 lead in committed delegates (see chart). A loss at home might not be fatal to the President's chances, but it would be crippling and humiliating...
German Lead. Two statistics chart the vigor of the rebound. The Common Market Commission now estimates that the output of goods and services in the nine nations of the European Community will expand by 3.5% this year, v. its decline of 2.5% in 1975. And the number of jobless workers in the Nine has fallen from a peak of 5.7 million in January to about 5.4 million...
...rise in corporate profits for the year as a whole. Now guesses range from 30% to 35%. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania foresees pretax corporate profits running at a record annual rate of $168.4 billion in this year's last three months (see chart). If that happens, the recovery may gain even more steam. Higher profits give corporations the money to step up spending on new plant and equipment, which so far has been dragging...