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...voice from Williamsburg's past shouts louder than that of Patrick Henry, who in 1765 protested the British Stamp Act ("Caesar had his Brutus; Charles the First, his Cromwell"). Standing near the doorway of the House of Burgesses was Thomas Jefferson, then a 22-year-old law student. He listened as the passionate Henry paused before mentioning the name of the British King ("Let George the Third profit by their example"), then heard the cries of "Treason!" that reverberated through the colonies. While Thatcher could ponder her myopic forebears, Mitterrand could indulge a Francophile chuckle. On the fateful...
...newest prescription for curing America's economic ills is something called national industrial policy. Its advocates include labor unions, numerous Democratic politicians, a few economists and even some prominent members of the business community, including Felix Rohatyn and Du Pont Chairman Edward Jefferson. The idea comes in different forms and goes by various names. Democratic Presidential Contender Alan Cranston backs Rohatyn's proposal for a new Reconstruction Finance Corporation, patterned on the agency set up during the Depression, to loan money to needy industries. A group of five Democratic Congressmen led by Stanley Lundine of New York introduced...
...style of monuments in Washington (the Lincoln, the Washington, the Jefferson) runs to idealizations in cool, white stone...
...despite the twin threats of increased competition and the prospect that falling gasoline prices and a strengthening economy will tempt passengers to drive their cars instead of taking the bus. One reason for Prins' optimism: "As the economy picks up, more people are planning to take tours." Indeed, Jefferson's 1983 tour bookings are already up 80% over last year's, and its European jaunts are almost sold...
Prins now has a new plan to turn bus deregulation into still more profits. Last week Jefferson began offering new bus companies a package of services, ranging from the financing and maintenance of buses to advertising, promotion and accounting, to help them get started. Prins' fee: up to 15% of profits...