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This was the post-Camp David Jimmy Carter, a President eager to assert his leadership and to lash out at critics, of whom, a coast-to-coast survey by TIME bureau chiefs showed, there were a formidable number. The subject of his opening cannonade was the oil industry's effort to get Congress to reduce the windfall profits tax, which Carter hopes to use to finance a multibillion-dollar energy program. Said Carter: "There will be a massive struggle to gut the windfall profits tax. I want to serve notice tonight that I will do everything...
...does this underground Trailways. Last year its buses delivered low rates and lots of laughs to more than 1,000 coast-to-coast passengers. The prototype was a VW van on the Portland-to-Berkeley run ten years ago. Its success prompted a flock of imitators, which still crisscross the continent summers and during the Christmas break. "We all know we're working on borrowed time," says one of the owners, who also doubles as a bus driver. "One of these days we'll be found out, and it will be over." At Big Spring, Texas...
...Nashville, and people in Memphis call and ask why we don't open one in their town so their kids can have it. No sooner than that happens and the people in Knoxville call, and so on." Indeed, Kaplan is quickly establishing permanent centers in every major American city, coast-to-coast; over 25,000 students will take a kaplan course this year...
...cream. His idea of a great time is to talk on the phone. His idea of heaven is to spend hours debating the pros and cons of Proposition 13. He wears dirty jeans three days in a row, chews vitamin pills and remembers everything. He makes coast-to-coast plane reservations for six consecutive flights, then misses all of them. Almost the only appurtenance consonant with his celebrity is an address book Don Juan would envy. As one of his best friends puts it, "He can be an idiot, and he can be brilliant. The thing is, whatever...
Three more bargain plans were proposed last week. Starting March 18, United Airlines will expand its Super Saver plan, which currently knocks 30% to 45% off normal economy fare on coast-to-coast flights. Discounts of 30% to 40% will be available to travelers in all 110 cities served by United for trips of more than 900 miles. American Airlines, the originator of the Super Saver fare, retaliated with an extension of the plan to all 52 U.S. cities that it serves, beginning March 23. Unlike United, American will set no distance requirement...