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...James MacGregor Burns, Williams College political scientist and biographer of Franklin Roosevelt
...money than they do, and they see lobbying as an opportunity. They weigh that against ten to 15 more years in politics." Ex-Congressmen who do not go home are a Washington tradition. Former Senators Birch Bayh and John Sherman Cooper have Washington law practices. Onetime Minnesota Congressman Clark MacGregor is a senior vice president of United Technologies, the manufacturing conglomerate. Some former members are more powerful than they were as Congressmen: James D. McKevitt was only a one-term representative from Colorado from 1971-73, but he is now chief lobbyist of the 500,000-member National Federation...
...must regain that distinction. Most now seem to realize that pointing to past achievements, no matter how glorious, is not enough. New ideas are a snap to disparage ("Where's the beef?"), but good new ideas are essential. "The shoe is on the Democratic foot," says Historian James MacGregor Burns. "The party must carry through the current process of realignment and formulate and fight for a clear, comprehensive alternative to Reagan rule." -By Kurt Andersen. Reported by Robert Ajemian/Washington and Kenneth W. Bantu/New York, with other bureaus
...that time of union preeminence--or at least influence--appears to be gone. Now lan MacGregor, the iron-willed Scottish-American head of the NCB, will simply look elsewhere to fill Britain's coal needs. He has already imported coal from Poland, South Africa and the United States at prices cheaper than those of British coal, even with shipping costs included. Yet, with the odds and much of public opinion against them, the miners strike...
...store of coal is totally exhausted to avoid firing or relocating miners until absolutely necessary. He claims that a 1974 labor-management agreement on coal policy, approved after a lengthy strike that brought down Edward Heath's Conservative government in that same year, contains no mention of pit closings. (MacGregor and his allies have parried this charge with full page newspaper ads quoting statements by both Scargill and the 1974 report which concede that some minus must inevitably close...