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...pocketbook, and its votes, on the right? Why such a crushing rejection of an incumbent President who only six months ago was given 60% in the opinion polls, and whose performance had seemed so creditable in many respects? Under Giscard, after all, France had become Europe's foremost aerospace manufacturer, the largest European producer of nuclear energy, a world leader in industrial and agricultural exports and, on the whole, a more prosperous nation than when he took office seven years ago. True, his popularity had plummeted as the unemployment level rose to 1.66 million, or 7.2% of the work...
Land leasing has been a necessity in other areas. In Palm Springs, Calif., where about half the land is owned by the Agua Caliente Indians, many home buyers lease their land. Large industrial concerns like Du Pont, Foremost-McKesson and Shell Oil have long rented the ground beneath their buildings to conserve capital for other purposes...
DIED. Bob Marley, 36, reggae superstar who became the foremost proponent of the jagged, pulsing Caribbean sound and a major factor in its popularity and influence; of cancer; in Miami. Son of an English army captain and a Jamaican native, he founded his band, the Wailers, in 1964, but did not achieve commercial success until more than a decade later. Marley, whose song I Shot the Sheriff was made a hit by Eric Clapton in 1974, was an outspoken advocate of Rastafarianism, a Jamaica-based political-religious cult embracing a variety of ideas and trends: reggae music, marijuana...
...geodesic dome. Dymaxion map. Geoscope and other inventions have made Fuller known as one of the foremost thinkers of the 20th century. Despite initial failures, including being expelled twice and never graduating from Harvard, these early successes lend credibility to his ideas. The 85-year-old Fuller succeeds primarily be perceiving the world and mankind in large terms: he defines the universe as the "omni-interaccommodative, nonsimultaneous, and only partially overlapping, omni-intertransforming. self-regenerating scenario...
...Administration faces a host of nettlesome foreign policy issues on which it seems not to have any clear policy: arms control talks, Middle East peace negotiations, relations with South Africa. These could explode at any time, but most of the problems confronting the Reaganauts are of the domestic variety. Foremost is Congressional passage of the President's economic package, but other issues may also prove troublesome for the Administration. Among them...