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Edwards' opposition to a 1965 resolution barring "Negroes and other civil rights agitators" from membership in the church where Jimmy Carter used to worship nearly cost the pastor his job last October. Last week he was ambushed by a faction that demanded he be fired. After several hours of bitter debate, Edwards agreed to leave his post April...
...alternatives: 1) a company building new facilities or buying new machines could increase its investment tax credit from the current 10% to 12%, or 2) it could simply choose to accept a tax credit equal to 4% of its total contributions to Social Security, thus decreasing slightly the cost of hiring new workers. For example, a company employing 100 workers earning an average of $10,000 a year could have deducted...
Carter is just beginning to receive position papers from his advisers on what his policies should be. But three major elements already are visible: 1) conservation of oil and gas by making them cost more, 2) greater use of coal, and 3) de-emphasis of nuclear power. Both Carter and Schlesinger (a former chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, among his other credits) agree that nuclear power is too expensive and too vulnerable on the safety issue. In his budget, Carter has cut $200 million from the fast-breeder reactor program. One reason: such reactors produce plutonium, which...
...scenery and the costumes, which cost $300,000, are a dazzling plus. But the acting is, surprisingly, no more than competent. Elizabeth Ashley is a vital Cleopatra - half alley cat, half Queen - but more Shakespeare's lady of the Nile than Shaw's. Rex Harrison's Caesar is a burnt-out case who does not seem to remember what it was like to be warm - let alone what it was like to be Caesar. Gerald Clarke
...certain to occur as the windy season now approaching wreaks havoc on dusty acreage unprotected by snow cover. Lack of green grazing land and hay is also forcing cattlemen either to sell off their thin animals at low prices or fatten them on expensive trucked-in feed. As the cost of feed has soared, ranchers virtually dumped herds, further depressing what they could get for them...