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Then, suddenly appearing over Hakodate, Belenko circled twice and touched down, two drag chutes popping from the MIG's tail for braking. Because of his tire blowout, Belenko was apparently unable to use the wheel brakes, and the MIG overran the runway, knocking down two short navigational antennas before coming to a stop...
...deeply disappointed John Sears sadly phoned his boss. Reagan asked sympathetically if there was anything he could do to help. "Well," Sears replied wryly, "if you could get me one of those tractors backed up to this trailer and drag it out of here, it would be a help." As Florida cast its vote, Ford, watching the televised roll call with two aides, Jack Marsh and Richard Cheney, Son Mike and Daughter-in-Law Gayle, said quietly, "I think that does it." He meant that he was now certain to be the Republican nominee...
...Jacob Javits, New Jersey's Clifford Case, Illinois' Charles Percy and Massachusetts' Ed Brooke-men who win elections in large, industrial, Democratic states -help to keep the G.O.P. a major party with a broad base. If the moderates sink, speculates Mathias with obvious concern, they may drag the two-party system down with them. Some Republicans snort at such a gloomy prediction; they wonder why Mathias has not cleared out a long time...
...moderation in growth also hampered a faster reduction in the still high unemployment rate, which is itself a drag on the economy (see box following page...
Corporate spending has usually trailed other indexes in past recoveries largely because businessmen are reluctant to build new factories or order new machinery until rising demand puts back into use existing capacity that had been idled by recession. But the current drag in business spending has lasted longer and has been more pronounced than usual. Measured even in current dollars, capital spending fell from a peak annual rate of $116.2 billion in the fourth quarter of 1974 to $111.8 billion at the end of last year, and recovered in the first quarter of 1976 only to $114.7 billion. Measured...