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...have just four things to tell you. (Holding up his index finger.) One, my name is Jimmy Carter. (Holding up two fingers) I'm running for president. (Three fingers.) I need your help. (Four fingers) I'm gonna win. And now I want to introduce some very good friends of mine from Macon, Georgia...the Allman Brothers...
...home to his family by 6, showers, changes into pajamas and eats a simple meal, often his favorite macaroni and cheese. After dinner Reagan munches on jelly beans as he works over his papers and speeches, which he writes in a personal shorthand on 4-in. by 5-in. index cards, or watches television. Favorite programs include The Waltons and reruns of Mission: Impossible. His best-liked authors include William F. Buckley Jr. and Allen Drury...
...Australia was behind the deposed Prime Minister. In the trading pits of the stock exchanges, word of Whitlam's ouster was greeted with ear-splitting cheers and a 17-point jump in the Sydney Stock Exchange's index of shares, bringing it to a high for the year. In Brisbane, a woman telephoned a radio station to stress that "for all those in the streets, there are many more in their homes quietly celebrating Whitlam's departure...
...rate (v. a 53-day inventory now) and to frighten the industry into a rebate plan to stimulate business. Just how long the upward pace will continue depends on the strength of the recovery, which so far appears to be maintaining most of its momentum. The Government's index of leading indicators-which portends economic trends-was off nine-tenths of a per cent in September, its first drop in seven months. But analysts did not see the slight drop as an omen of a turnback toward recession. The stock market was rattled by President Ford's decision...
...Consumer Price Index rose in September at an annual rate of 6.2%, more than double the low 2.4% rate in August, but still well below July's frighteningly high 15.4%. September's moderate increase in living costs was led by services, such as college tuitions and doctors' fees: the services category of the index jumped 1%, its biggest monthly rise in a year. Encouragingly, however, food prices-a major source of inflationary pressure last summer-crept only slightly higher in September. Productivity in the private nonfarm economy jumped at an annual rate of 9.4% in the third...