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...Watson's talents. The young man clearly had a special way with people. When Carter tried to get his reorganization plan through the state legislature, Watson was the smooth arm twister he assigned to persuade the most resistant rural legislators. Then Carter asked him to head up the largest and most controversial of his departments, human resources, which included sensitive programs in drugs, mental health, Medicaid...
...heir to a "57 Varieties" fortune unleashed an avalanche of greenbacks-mostly his own. It was sufficient to bury Democratic Congressman William Green, despite Green's support from organized labor and the powerful big-city machines. Heinz's campaign outlay (well over $2 million) was the largest sum spent on a Senate race this year and it kept Heinz on the tube throughout the campaign. Meanwhile, Green was forced to suspend his television commercials for ten crucial days in October for lack of money...
...began in 1964 with the abrupt end of democracy in Brazil, the continent's largest nation. Around 1968 the Brazilian military regime grew nasty: priests were jailed and dissidents were tortured to death. Says one bishop: "The effect on the church leadership was swift and strong. It would have been impossible for us to concentrate only on pastoral work when we knew human beings were being tortured and mutilated." President Ernesto Geisel, who is a Lutheran, claims that he has ordered an end to political torture, but local police and military officials persist in the practice, as do right...
...strength to do what many of them have not done in years: buy new planes. American. Braniff and Northwest have placed orders with Boeing for 23 727-200s (value: $251 million). Eastern has ordered nine DC-9s from McDonnell Douglas. In September, United Airlines, the nation's largest air carrier, handed Boeing its biggest order from any major U.S. airline in eight years: 28 727-200s worth $350 million, including spare parts...
Boeing's business is running ahead of the company's own gloomy projections. It now has 151 orders v. 99 a year ago, most of them from domestic airlines. The Boeing 747 plant at Everett, Wash., the world's largest building in terms of capacity (200 million cubic feet), is busier now than at any time since the early 1970s when the 747 jumbo was new and the competitive rush to put it into service was at its peak. McDonnell Douglas expects to deliver 18 jumbo DC-10s next year, about the same as this year, plus...