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Still, from the Rockies to the Pacific, the Democratic trend seems inexorable. In a recent poll in California, Democratic Senator Alan Cranston was 35 points ahead of Republican Rival H.L. Richardson. Traditionally Republican Arizona will probably elect Democrat Raul Castro as Governor and perhaps even a Democratic state senate. The Democratic sweep is likely to be blocked only in Alaska, where Governor William Egan is trailing Republican Challenger Jay Hammond, and Senator Mike Gravel shows only a slim lead over his Republican rival, C.R. Lewis, a state senator and member of the John Birch Society's advisory council...
Gordon McKellen Jr., the 1974 U.S. men's champion, and Toller Cranston, the 1974 Canadian champion and 1974 World free-skating champion, headline the event, which will include performances by all 1974 North American gold-medal winners...
Bruised Knuckles. The Administration recognizes that the housing industry needs special help if it is to survive the crunch, and last week the White House began providing some. Ford signed into law the Brooke-Cranston bill, a measure that will pump $7.75 billion of federal funds into the sere U.S. residential mortgage market over the next twelve months. Earlier, the President had urged Congress to make available only $3 billion to federal agencies that in effect lend the money to home buyers at below-market interest rates. Some builders have talked themselves into believing that once the elections are over...
...housing trust fund that could borrow up to $10 billion a year from the Treasury to finance low-interest mortgages. Republican Senator Edward Brooke of Massachusetts and Democratic Senator Alan Cranston of California are sponsoring a bill to create the fund...
Almost nobody had a harsh word to say about Gerald Ford. Senator Charles Percy of Illinois spoke of Ford's ability to work smoothly with Congress; Senator Alan Cranston, the California Democrat, noted Ford's ability "to reach out, to consult and to conciliate." From the Colorado Rockies where he was vacationing, former Kansas Governor Alf Landon, the Republican presidential candidate of 1936, watched Ford's performance and was impressed "with the promptness with which he is making his decisions; he's going about his job without hesitation or delay...