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...Prime Minister is cast in a very different mold. The son of a wealthy lumber dealer, he served as a naval paymaster in The Netherlands East Indies (now Indonesia) and Formosa (now Taiwan) during World War II. For a few years after the war he was so embittered that he insisted on always wearing a black tie, since "every Japanese should be in mourning." But in the early '60s, Nakasone was deeply impressed by the political style of the late Robert F Kennedy, from whom he picked up the very un-Japanese habit of shaking hands with everyone...
...taking the Northern California seat that had been held for ten terms by Don Clausen, 59. Clausen lost to 36-year-old State Assemblyman Douglas Bosco, who was a congressional page when Clausen arrived in Washington in 1963. Bosco hammered away at unemployment in the district's dominant lumber industry, while a group opposed to atomic weapons heavily publicized Clausen's vote against a nuclear-freeze resolution that lost in the House by exactly two ballots...
California's deficit is trifling compared with Oregon's, which will be at least $400 million and could reach $1.6 billion (the latter total would be more than 50% of the state's $3 billion budget). Reason: Oregon's lumber-based economy has all but collapsed in the housing slump. With unemployment at 10.1% and personal income and business taxes plummeting (the state has no sales tax), legislators will meet in January, their third attempt in a year to devise emergency measures. Possible solutions: a stiff income tax surcharge and new "sin" taxes on cigarettes...
Despite these sharp differences, however, the voters remain evenly divided, with each side claiming the "momentum" and a narrow edge in the polls Mitchell, appealing to Maine's many poor and to the unemployed in hard-pressed industries like textiles, shoes, and lumber, has been hitting hard at Emery's support for what Mitchell spokesman Steve Morrison calls "Reagan's trickle down approach" Emery says he's a "mainstreamer" on economics, and is pinning his hopes on Maine's relatively few 78 percent overall unemployment rate and on the conservative Republican instincts of the state's many small farmers. Both...
Hathaway has watched this Bryant Pond disappear along with Long's Lumber Yard, where they planed on all four sides, true and square, and a cannery where a boy could pick up a damaged tin of creamed corn for a free lunch on his way to a day of fishing. After so much loss, why should a crank-telephone switchboard in the back room of his home lay claim to immortality...