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What's that you say, you're a little behind in your work, you haven't slept much lately, a big hourly's on the horizon. Well what are you worried about, you have all weekend to catch...
...horizon loomed the Michigan primary. A Ford loss in his home state would be devastating. On May 11 the President reluctantly signed the legislation reviving the FEC's major powers and announced he was sending the names of his nominees to the Senate. On the day of the Michigan primary, Ford announced he was holding up $2 million in campaign subsidies for another week by refusing to swear in five standing members of the FEC until the Senate confirmed the sixth, the only Presidential appointment that differed from the original FEC members...
...neck toward the future and expound on the view over yonder is all too often blushing from more than exertion by the time the scene has gotten plain enough for everyone to see. Still, if you can trace an edge here and there, catch a glint on the horizon, and toss in a grain of folk wisdom--say, about history repeating itself--divination is an awfully tempting pasttime. Politicians like to do it; journalists, too; scholars, as befits their trade, tend to be more circumspect...
...outsider pictures the Texas economy as a montage of oil wells gushing instant wealth, horizon-to-horizon cattle roaming the King Ranch, self-made millionaires stomping about in stetsons, ready to take a shot at anything that promises a profit. The surprising fact is that so much of this view is essentially true-although the real business mosaic of Texas is of course vastly more complicated. The Texas economy is a thing unto itself, almost self-sustaining, ever on the move. Today, for example, Texas is expanding production of drilling equipment faster than output of oil itself. Besides...
...typical car to about $6,000 (the average 1967 GM auto cost $3,000). Murphy dropped an elephantine hint to the U.A.W. to be reasonable; he expressed hope that no further price boosts on the '77s will be required. One other cloud on the auto horizon, the threat of a tire shortage, seems to be dissolving. The United Rubber Workers and Firestone announced tentative agreement on a contract under which the first of 60,000 rubber workers could begin returning from a 126-day strike this week...