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...Rees blow the rest? Before his arrest he told "My Story" in a remarkable communique to the world, revealing in disillusioning detail an unsuspected peril in stealing a fortune: your new friends can be as larcenous as you, and as dangerous as the cops. Rees' 17-page letter was sent to San Francisco Chronicle Columnist Herb Caen, who mentioned it in an item this month and sent the manuscript...
...Hill, Bergland has blamed former Agriculture Secretary Earl Butz's laissez-faire farm policy for putting farmers in peril of a "disastrous cycle of boom and bust." Butz abolished costly Government food stockpiles and deeply slashed the multibillion-dollar farm subsidies established in the Kennedy-Johnson era. At the same time, he launched an aggressive food-export push that has helped boost farmers' incomes...
...much for the joys of skiing. The fact remains that skiers are masochists. To illustrate this point, I offer a few true stories of peril on the slopes. Keep in mind that all of the following victims are still skiing whenever they...
...greater long-range peril for the Democrats may be the losing of the West, which gave Ford about as many electoral votes (98) as Carter gained in the South (108). Moreover, the old Democratic coalition proved that it can no longer be counted on. Carter's share of the votes from ethnic groups such as the Irish, the Italians and the Eastern Europeans was reduced from most recent previous Democratic presidential campaigns. As Caddell acknowledged, Democrats will have to garner more moderate, middle-class votes in the industrial North in order to win in the future. In recognition...
Some more definitive answers as to whether the recovery is in a pause or actually in peril are due this week...