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Virginia: Howell v. Dalton...
...invisible exploiters of the little guy in the Old Dominion?the landed gentry, the bankers, the big public-service companies. Already a two-time loser for the governorship (in 1969 and 1973), Howell, 57, is giving it another try. This time his opponent is Republican Lieutenant Governor John Dalton, who is as lackluster as Howell is hokey and hard-hitting...
...Dalton, 46, is a wealthy lawyer who followed his father, Ted, a popular Republican state senator, into the legislature in 1966. But it is the controversial Howell who has been the primary issue in the campaign. As a state legislator in the '60s. Howell successfully fought to abolish the poll tax and to establish one-man, one-vote representation. He worked to pass consumer legislation and plug tax loopholes. This year, as a candidate, he is calling for the restoration of the 100 phone call (it costs 200 to use a pay phone in Virginia), collective bargaining for public employees...
...farmer's wife tossed a little do in her Middleburg, Va., backyard-and charged $35 a couple admission. And why not? Hostess Elizabeth Taylor Warner was sponsoring a political fund raiser for Republican Gubernatorial Candidate John Dalton. Because of a painful flare-up of bursitis, Liz, clad in blue jeans and red silk slippers, hobbled about on a cane. Before giving a brief welcoming speech, she impulsively went for a helicopter ride with Husband John Warner and the Daltons, sweeping low over her 160-year-old farmhouse and 2,000 acres of pasture land. "Being in a helicopter...
...Carter of all his Cabinet-level appointees, Lance's stock and other holdings have been put in a blind trust-an arrangement under which a person's holdings are managed for his benefit by a trustee, but without his knowledge. Lance's trustee, Thomas Mitchell, a Dalton, Ga., businessman, offers one answer: "I'll either have to increase the debt or liquidate assets...