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Ford's surge in the polls peaked a bit too early. Polls released before the weekend showed the race a virtual dead heat, and for the first time in the campaign, voters were forced to ask themselves if they wanted four more years of a Republican administration.
Today, 55,000 students are bused, and the enrollment in private academies, which peaked in 1972 (17,600 students attending 58 private schools), has dropped somewhat. Says one black student: "Black and white students get along better, do things together, and color is nothing." How Jacksonville managed to desegregate without...
-Accprding to the FBI, bombings of commercial buildings peaked at 485 incidents in 1975 and totaled "only" 173 in the first half of 1976. "Federal hostage cases," generally meaning kidnapings. bomb scares, and extortion attempts against businessmen or members of their families, reached about 40 in 1974, fell to about...
But below the surface things have been changing with increasing rapidity, as the overall trend to the left and the growing rift between left and right in these elections demonstrates. The DC-headed coalitions of the "centro-sinistra" (center-left)--including the Christian Democrats and one or more of the...
Scott, to be sure, was not Thorpe's only political problem. His electoral fortunes peaked in the Feb. 1974 election, when he lured enough discontented voters from both Labor and the Tories to poll an impressive 20% of the vote and won, with just 14 seats in the Commons...