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Farmers' wives have also joined the action. Michigan-based American Agri-Women, representing some 12,000 farm women, dispenses information, delivers pep talks, and lobbies state legislatures and occasionally the U.S. Congress...
...revision proposals entangled in that scrap. Also, the White House has lately become increasingly concerned about possible sluggishness in the economy next year, and about the stiffening resistance of businessmen and some Congressmen to the tax-reform plan, even before it has officially been announced. In order both to pep up the economy and, they hope, disarm critics, Administration planners are subtly shifting the emphasis of the tax package from a program of reform to one of stimulative tax cuts, especially for business...
...press. Some reporters tried to listen through cracks in the door, but they were quickly ushered away. TIME'S Chicago bureau chief Benjamin Cate managed to slip into the Blue Max Room's projection booth, from which he heard most of Dayan's 20-minute pep rally before being spotted by an Israeli security man and shooed away. Cate reported that the Dayan behind closed doors was much more the hard-nosed warrior than the cautious diplomat. His message was clear and tough, and he had some barbs for both President Carter and Secretary of State Vance...
...press. Wiseman is especially fascinated by the community's many patriotic ceremonies. Whether the Zonians are at church or on the tennis court or out for a banquet, they are forever pledging and singing their allegiance to the flag with the fervor of high school students at a pep rally...
...anti-Labor voting pattern apparently solidified in the final hours of a dreary campaign that not even the first television debate between the two major candidates could pep up. Late polls indicated that up to 28% of the voters were undecided which of the competing parties they preferred going into election day. They had been unable to resolve a dilemma central to Israeli politics. On the one hand, Labor was the only government that voters had known, and the party could rightly claim to be the standard-bearer of the socialist, egalitarian ideals of Israel's founders. On the other...