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...severe shortages have occurred and threaten to return. The price of oil to heat homes has risen, since his sunny Inauguration Day, from 44? a gallon to more than 80?. Carter can and does blame the nation's economic difficulties partly on a greedy OPEC, partly on a fractious Congress, partly on the profligate American public, partly on the limitations of presidential power. But the fact remains that he seeks public endorsement of his presidency in the face of highly unfavorable economic circumstances...
...Stove League," the time between baseball seasons when players relaxed and relived their moments of diamond glory. For peppery New York Yankees Manager Billy Martin, it's come to be more a hot shove league, a winter of discontent in which Martin almost inevitably ends up in fractious incidents. This season in Bloomington, Minn., the wiry Yankee got into an altercation with a marshmallow salesman who required 20 stitches to close an ugly gash on his jaw. Martin denied hitting the marshmallow man, but Yankee Owner George Steinbrenner decided enough was enough and fired his manager. It was Martin...
...Meany was unable to maintain the momentum of unionism as more workers turned white collar. Union membership has shrunk from 34% of the work force when he became president to 23% today. Without Meany's capacity for reaching consensus, the fractious unions may have trouble working together. Says Ulric Scott, chairman of Minnesota's Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party: "His departure is as important as his presence. It's like a $100 bill that has been changed into a number of smaller bills. Politicians are going to have to court the AFL-CIO as an organization...
Begin seems less and less in control of his fractious ministers. At the Cabinet meeting that led to the bitter exchange between Yadin and Sharon, the Premier admitted that he had not read the minutes of the committee report on the settlements, despite the fact that they had been sent to his home. Even one of Begin's protective aides admits deep concern: "It seems that his physical condition is deteriorating quickly. I do not know when, but he will have to quit the premiership. It might happen tomorrow, next week-or next year...
...Despite his admirable efforts in the Middle East, on the Panama Canal, in the SALT negotiations, in human rights, Carter has not been able to find within himself the passion, the spiritual heat, to inspire. He still gazes out upon his fractious and occasionally ungovernable countrymen with wondering ice-blue eyes too often predisposed to see the small picture...