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That relationship began in 1954 when he signed on for his first regular TV appearance as host and master of ceremonies for the weekly General Electric Theater. He stayed on for eight years. His duties involved frequent trips to G.E. plants around the country, making an interminable series of addresses (Reagan figures he spent 4,000 hours at G.E.-plant microphones) that went far toward honing his present-day skill with an audience...
Reagan does not deny having expressed similar views in the past. Says he ruefully: "Maybe I have been a Johnny One-Note on the conservative philosophical trend. But people have tried to plant a right-wing label on me when really I have been saying over and over that there is no quarrel about the goals between people of good will." In fact, on many of his key views, Reagan jibes better with the liberal wing of the G.O.P. than with Goldwaterites...
...busily dispelling the tired-blood stigma that had bedeviled him, O'Connor was mired in a dull, perfunctory campaign. Stumping upstate, the Democratic candidate arrived at Endicott (pop. 19,-000) too late in the afternoon to greet most of the workers leaving the town's large IBM plant. That night he wandered around shopping centers vainly trying to find hands to shake. Next day he showed up for a speech in the Chenango Valley town of Norwich (pop. 9,200), found fewer than 20 people waiting for him at a local restaurant. Returning to Manhattan, he showed...
...dwindling food supply to pose a twofold problem: how to increase the crop yield on existing farmland, and how to make use of acreage previously considered uncultivable. In the Philip pines, Rockefeller Foundation scientists have successfully tackled the first part of the problem by developing a short, stiff rice plant that may increase the average yield of each crop as much as 800%. Planted in test plots alongside the standard brand, the new rice rises in lush plants that make its old-fashioned cousin look like a victim of drought. Because it can also produce three crops a year instead...
...almost entirely to defense production and to delay deliveries of alloys to civilian customers in the transportation, construction, aircraft, electricity and even nuclear-energy fields. Instead of shutting down its Christy Park Works and laying off 500 workers, as it had announced last year, U.S. Steel Corp. has the plant going full blast, with 2,000 workers turning out bomb casings and air-to-air missile warheads...