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...visit particularly stricken by bad luck was that of Malcolm Fraser, the Prime Minister of Australia, who came in 1976. Fraser's arrival was marked by thick, black and violent rain clouds which sheeted the rain so heavily that one could not see 10 feet ahead. Anderson still laughs when he recalls picking up the Prime Minister, whose plane was nearly two hours late. Returning in the limousine. Anderson attempted to point out some of Cambridge's highlights. "Mr. Prime Minister, that's MIT," the Marshal would say, as Fraser stared into the pitch-black clouds, trying to recognize...
After the Prime Minister had arrived. Cambridge City Councilor Alfred E. Vellucci decided to send Fraser a present, and he sent a messenger over with the package. Quite unintentionally, the Wadsworth office forgot the gift was coming, so that when the gift-bearer arrived holdings a non-descript package and asked to see Fraser, the secret service men hired for the Prime Minister jumped at the innocent deliveryman and tore open the package before it reached the head of state...
...endorsed Daley in the primary, was part of a parade of national Democratic leaders who went to Chicago to appeal for party unity and cultivate black voters. Congressman Claude Pepper of Florida, the octogenarian hero of the elderly, also was booed by a white audience last week. Douglas Fraser, the president of the United Auto Workers, confronted the race issue headon. Said he: "This election would have been over the day after the primary except that Harold Washington is black." Ohio Senator John Glenn said the Chicago campaign showed that "we're at the hardest part of the civil...
...contrast, Fraser was generally on the defensive. In calling elections seven months early, he had hoped to limit the political damage of a worsening economy and to run against Bill Hayden, Hawke's lackluster predecessor as head of the Labor Party. The maneuver backfired when, on the very day Fraser called the election, Labor dumped Hayden and turned to the charismatic Hawke. Fraser responded by reminding Australia's basically conservative electorate of his own 27 years in Parliament, compared with Hawke's two years. But more often, he devoted too much energy to disparaging Hawke...
...however, Fraser was largely defeated by Australia's economic woes. Unemployment is at 10.1%, the highest since the early 1930s. Inflation is 11.2% annually, and economic growth is only 1%. The recession has been exacerbated by the worst drought in 40 years and by bush fires that swept through southeastern Australia three weeks ago, claiming 72 lives and destroying 2,500 homes. Further reports of sharply declining productivity in a wide variety of consumer goods reached the candidates as they campaigned. But where Fraser advocated prudent economic conservatism, Hawke called for an ambitious $2.65 billion public works program designed...