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...Carter ally: none other than Gerald R. Ford, their one-time House comrade and President for 29 months, who lost to Carter by only 3% in the 1976 election. Responding to the G.O.P. leaders' promptings, Republican Richard Schulze of Pennsylvania signaled that he was changing his vote. The clerk of the House then cried, "Off no, on yes." To jeers, laughter and applause, the tally shifted again: 207 to 205. The pro-Carter forces finally had taken the lead, and after one more member's yes, the chairman brought down his gavel with a whack and declared...
...three-room suite at the International Dunes Hotel. They kept to themselves, eating their meals-sometimes ordered from an expensive French restaurant-in their suite and paying their bills in cash. The source of the money was a mystery. The father once spoke vaguely to a hotel clerk of owning silver mines in Sweden. But a disciple had recently been convicted of wire fraud, and the FBI was investigating Longo on similar charges...
...thing about all this controversy. It's made a lot of people start to think a lot more seriously about us," So says J.J.J. Wilken, the town clerk and unofficial historian of the 374-sq.-mi. territory of Walvis Bay. Until international attention focused on independence for Namibia, few people had much reason to think at all about this spectacular but isolated deep-water port on the continent's barren southwestern coastline. Apart from the harbor and its railroad connections, Walvis Bay has little to recommend even to its inhabitants: 10,000 whites of mixed British, Dutch...
School officials regard Impact Aid as manna. They can spend it on anything they want?books, teachers' pay, a new swimming pool?with a minimum of red tape and no federal inspections. The San Diego school district administers its $11.7 million in Impact Aid with one accountant and one clerk. Says Dave Fish, who supervises the funds in San Diego: "Out here people are worried about the property tax. If we didn't get this aid, we would have had to increase local taxes. And why shouldn't the Federal Government pay its rent...
Sullivan took the candidate on a tour of most of the city offices. "How you doing, Paul Tsongas, running for United States Senate," Tsongas repeated to every tax collector, auditor, clerk and secretary he met, always placing the accent on his name. The reactions he received ranged from disinterested nods to an embrace and kiss from one secretary; that seemed to ensure him one vote at least, but the stop could not be considered a complete success. Several city councilors who were supposed to meet with Tsongas were not around...