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...happened during a convulsive, brawling fortnight of Senate debate on Jimmy Carter's energy legislation. By the end of last week a Senate committee had rejected key parts of the Carter package, and the Administration's salvaging efforts on the Senate floor faced heavy odds. Ultimately, the President could only look to the more sympathetic House to hang tough in the impending showdown between the two chambers over their vastly differing visions of the country's energy future...
...fortnight ago, the pacesetting 30-share Financial Times stock market index reached an alltime high of 549.2, six points above its previous record in May 1972. Profit taking and some unfavorable corporate reports have since eroded prices somewhat; last week the FT index closed at 504.7, still a spectacular rebound from its nadir of 146 in January...
...foreign policy, had biblical overtones ("But through failure we have found our way back to our own principles and values"). So did some press conference remarks last week ("I think there is a general sense in the world we had better get our own houses in order"). Also, a fortnight ago, Carter called a White House meeting of ten Southern Baptist leaders to plan global missionary strategy, a rare blending of presidential aura with a religious program...
Bombshell No. 1-which happily turned out to be a dud-was the announcement that Menachem Begin, hawkish leader of the victorious right-wing Likud coalition in the election a fortnight ago, had been rushed to a Tel Aviv hospital complaining of chest pains. That raised doubts about whether Begin, 63, who had suffered a serious heart attack only two months ago, was well enough to head a new government. The Likud leader, however, quickly recovered from what turned out to be exhaustion and a mild bout of angina pectoris, and astonished his countrymen by dropping bombshell...
...closet, as if at a signal. Before the week was out, it seemed, the air waves and the public prints were awash with the commentary of glibsters who said that, by George, something, ; maybe whisky vapors, made talked-to plants grow better. By the end of a fortnight, sturdy, feet-on-the-ground Undecideds who knew the whole thing was bosh were talking to their plants just in case the lunatics were right...