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Grayson, who cherishes his image as a nonpartisan price controller, professed surprise at the blatantly political use of his pronouncements. Yet the attempt to capitalize on his auto-price ruling was predictable. Last month chiefs of the four U.S. automakers were summoned to the White House and asked by Donald Rumsfeld, director of Nixon's Cost of Living Council, to withdraw requests for price increases on 1973 models that ranged upward from $85 per car or truck. G.M. eventually agreed to reduce its increase to $54 per vehicle and Ford came down to $59. Then, last week Grayson announced...
...drive will be helped by a 1970 congressional act that outlaws residency requirements longer than 30 days in presidential elections. Those two legal changes mean, says Dutton, that "the shape of the ballpark has changed; past patterns are no longer valid." A study by Student Vote, a nonpartisan group trying to mobilize young voters, claims that if only half of the 25 million vote and just 60% of them choose McGovern, this would swing to McGovern six states (Tennessee, Alaska, California, Missouri, New Jersey and Ohio) that went Republican in 1968. If he held the Humphrey states, a shaky assumption...
Even Break. As finally approved after 54 working days, Montana's new charter is a model document. Despite the individual political differences of the writers, it has a nonpartisan, populist character. Mercifully, it is only 12,000 words long, and it sparkles with flashes of human concern from the beginning: "We the people of Montana, grateful to God for the quiet beauty of our state, the grandeur of our mountains, the vastness of our rolling plains, and desiring to improve the quality of life...
...political document, designed to pass the election-year buck to the Democrats, Nixon's "nonpartisan" speech was a smooth and highly effective performance. He produced some graceful lines, including his defense of the nation's essential goodness. Said he: "Let us reject the narrow visions of those who tell us that we are evil because we are not yet perfect; that we are corrupt because we are not yet pure; that all the sweat and toil and sacrifice that have gone into the building of America were for naught because the building is not yet done...
...charged that the Administration had broken promises to achieve price stability, prosperity and domestic peace. Although much of the criticism was aimed at the President, Muskie was curiously nonpartisan. He never mentioned the Democratic Party, and correctly, if somewhat naively, conceded that "it would be foolish to blame all the nation's ills on the present Administration," a statement that rubbed many Democrats the wrong...