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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...such reasons, a lot of the country was not unhappy to watch New York City in the past year tottering like a Charlie Chaplin drunk on the brink of bankruptcy. The city is now able to lurch from payday to payday only because of revolving federal loans administered by a disdainful Republican Administration in Washington. New York has refused to redeem certain of its outstanding short-term securities on schedule. It has cut nearly 50,000 full-time employees from the city payroll in the past 18 months, reducing the total to some...
...lot of it has been derived from the tough combat between me and the twelve or 15 other major Democratic candidates. We've been emphasizing one another's weaknesses. We've not emphasized the compatibilities among us and the basic principles of our party...
...your news comes to you only from radio, television and the daily papers, there is a lot of news-or news so-called -that you may not have heard about. Did you know, as the National Enquirer reports, that a girl had a secret romance with Bobby Kennedy in the summers of 1948 and 1949? "My world fell apart," Joan Winmill Brown told the Enquirer. "I had two nervous breakdowns, lived on drugs-even contemplated suicide." This kind of journalism has a lineage in England and America going back to scandal sheets for scullery maids. However bold the headlines, much...
...TAKES A LOT of water to operate a coal tipple, and the one out on Buffalo Creek in Logan County, West Virginia was no exception. The tipple, owned by the Pittston Company through its Buffalo Mining subsidiary, used almost 500,000 gallons every day, two shifts a day and six days a week, pumping between 400 and 500 gallons of waste-filled water every minute. The waste was refuse from the coal mine, about 500 tons every day. Nobody knew what to do with...
There are a lot more unanswered questions--about Carter's tactics during his 1970 gubernatorial campaign; about Carter's 1972 speech at a "George Wallace Appreciation Day," the proceeds of which went to Wallace's presidential campaign; and about Carter's failure to reveal the names of contributors to his 1970 campaign. Not to mention some insightful words on why the studies of Carter done so far--like Brill's--have failed to have any measurable impact on Carter's success...