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...Nixon pardon to the problems of Lock and Dam 26 on the Mississippi River at Alton, Ill., to civil rights for homosexuals ('I have always tried to be an understanding person as far as people are concerned who are different from myself). He played very well in Peoria-by 63%-and just about everywhere else...
...carried a nice bag of gifts into Illinois. He gladdened farmers by proposing to raise the estate top exemption for family farms from $60,000 to $150,000. Despite his own pleas for cutting the federal budget, he also advocated more Government spending for agricultural animal research. And in Peoria, when a worried questioner asked why the Air Force was eliminating its ROTC program at Bradley University, Ford said he was "disgusted" by that "incomprehensible" step, and "we will do our darndest to rectify the error...
...federal aid for New York City. "If you let New York go down the drain," he said in a speech in Ohio, "it's going to be tough on Youngstown! It's going to be tough on Terre Haute! It's going to be tough on Peoria...
This week as the train plays Peoria-literally-its tour is mirroring the nation in quite a different way: it is in deep financial distress, fast building up a deficit that could reach $2.5 million. Apparently the trouble began early with lavish expenditures to renovate the train and assemble the exhibits. On the road there were further problems: complaints that the admission was too high ($2 for adults, $1 for children), the 15-minute moving-walkway trip through the cars too brief (the walkways have since been slowed). Attendance was erratic: only 10,800 visitors per day turned up during...
...nightmarish vividness, for all the pangs of truth. My Petition for More Space will never, as Nixon would say, play in Peoria. The United States is approaching zero population growth (ZPG), that is, when families average two children per couple, just enough to replace the parents when they die. The Bureau of the Census says the average now is under three and decreasing. Even if a cancer cure is found, or life expectancy extended, the United States with ZPG will never have the overpopulation Hersey dramatizes. It isn't New Haven, but New Delhi, that has to worry about...