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This resurgence has continued under Carter, partly because of his inept handling of the first session. To an extent, says Charles Jones, a University of Pittsburgh political scientist who is an expert on Congress, "a shift of power that started because of Nixon's arrogance has continued because of Carter's artlessness." Yet probably no President, however skilled in working with Congress, could have turned back the tide. Observes Arizona Representative Morris Udall, who was one of Carter's rivals for the Democratic presidential nomination: "Any President inaugurated in 1977 was going to face this giant, which had awakened after...
What makes Disini's services so valued? It might be his very close friendship with President Ferdinand Marcos, a connection that, according to veteran observers in Manila, was invoked to win a major share of the government's nuclear plant construction contract for Disini's client, Pittsburgh's Westinghouse Electric Corp. Allegations about the suspicious nature of Disini's services recently prompted the U.S. Export-Import Bank, which is providing much of the financing for the project, to ask the Justice Department to determine whether Westinghouse made improper payments to a foreign business agent. Troubled...
Another factor favoring stability is that aerospace companies are becoming diversified, which means that proportionately less of their profits depend on sales of machines that fly. North American Aviation, which was hurt badly in 1963 by the cancellation of the B70 bomber, has been born again as Pittsburgh-based Rockwell International; its 1977 sales of $5.9 billion (and earnings of $144 million) include pocket calculators and Admiral television sets as well as the space shuttle. Northrop owns the George A. Fuller Co. of New York City, a large general contractor that also maintains airplanes. Planemakers are attempting to avoid concentrations...
...other, less controversial effects. The President gave permission for new direct transatlantic flights to Europe starting from eleven U.S. cities, most in the Midwest or South; only ten cities had previously served as gateways to Europe (see map). He granted TWA the right to fly nonstop to Europe from Pittsburgh, Denver, St. Louis, Cleveland, Minneapolis-St. Paul and Kansas City, Mo. Northwest Airlines, which had no flights to Europe, picked up unused Pan Am rights to fly to Scandinavia from several cities across the nation. Delta Air Lines, which until now has been primarily a domestic carrier with no European...
More than in Christmases past, Americans spent money for high-priced quality items. "It was a luxury kind of Christmas," says Hal Silver, chairman of Kaufmann's in Pittsburgh. Adds Gordon Cooke, senior vice president for sales promotion at Bloomingdale's: "Price was no object." The French-made metal-housed Cuisinart, which slices, dices, chops, minces and shreds faster than conventional individual tools, sells for $225. Yet it and lower-priced competitors (La Machine, Omnichef) flew off shelves so fast that almost no store could seem to keep them in stock. Neiman-Marcus in Houston sold 24 West...