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...little Grasses back home, watching Bonanza in German on TV (presumably along with their elders), Father knows how undramatic, how droning his snail fables must sound. No white hats, no showdown at the O.K. Corral...
...forced to act because he had made an economic miscalculation in the pursuit of a political goal. Looking ahead to the 1972 election, he made sure that the income of farmers rose at the expense of other consumers and taxpayers, and now he is paying for it. Eager to corral as much of the farm vote as possible, he outdid any Plains State politician in pouring on subsidies and paying farmers to keep land out of production under the so-called set-aside program last year. Federal payments to farmers soared to $4.1 billion from $3.1 billion the year before...
...voice does not ultimately prevail in 1976, it may well be because Republican ears are more finely attuned to the Texas drawl of Democrat John Bowden Connally. Any day now, his intimates insist, Big John will throw his other long leg over the fence into the Republican corral - formally switching parties as a necessary step toward the Republican presidential nomination. Connally believes that he has been encouraged in his decision by Nixon. For weeks the President has been privately promoting the former Treasury Secretary as his possible successor. Through the alchemy of Connally's ambition, that tentative push...
...McGovern Before the Convention," he said, his puckish face spread in the confident Cheshire, smile, and coasted off to corral a comely. Afro-coiffed Chisholm delegate and convince her to become FMBC her foxy self...
...BART corral more? Dahms is optimistic, and many another U.S. city is waiting anxiously for the results, since most urban planners agree that new highways exacerbate rather than solve traffic-congestion problems. For the future shape of U.S. cities, a lot depends on BART...