Word: pennsylvania
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Rockefeller also faces unexpected opportunities. He is quietly trying to gain influence over neighboring state delegations in Pennsylvania, Connecticut and New Jersey. Together with New York, they stand to have at least 300 uncommitted delegates, out of 1,130 needed to nominate. Rocky's aim is to keep those delegates in Ford's camp or, if the President appears to be losing, prevent them from stampeding to Reagan?and then use them as bargaining chips for his still unclear purposes...
Eighteen million visitors are expected in Washington during the Bicentennial year, and vast numbers of them will come to the massive National Archives Building at Pennsylvania and Constitution Avenues to view America's historic documents: the Declaration of Independence, the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. TIME Correspondent Don Sider joined the already long lines of visitors and sent this report...
...Jackson candidacy collapsed as Carter took everything. The day after Pennsylvania, Humphrey's ordeal was plain. He would have to get in-or out. In Washington, he met with his closest advisers: Senator Walter Mondale and his top assistant, Richard Moe; Tom Kelm, assistant to Minnesota Governor Wendell Anderson; Max Kampelman, a Washington attorney; Bob Short; and others...
...committee, headed by his Minnesota friend Robert Short, to line up uncommitted delegates. It would be a low-key effort, in keeping with his pledges to the other candidates to stay out of the primaries. Like most other politicians, he believed Scoop Jackson was certain to win most of Pennsylvania's delegates even if he might lose the popular vote to Carter. "If Jackson does that," said Humphrey, sounding reassured, "I'm sure he'll stick...
Spending Money. At the start of 1976, most economists projected a 25% to 30% rise in corporate profits for the year as a whole. Now guesses range from 30% to 35%. The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania foresees pretax corporate profits running at a record annual rate of $168.4 billion in this year's last three months (see chart). If that happens, the recovery may gain even more steam. Higher profits give corporations the money to step up spending on new plant and equipment, which so far has been dragging...