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...easily the world's largest arms merchant, with $86 billion in "transfers" since 1950.* America offers, it sometimes seems, a weapon for every need and pocketbook, and keeps developing new products (see SCIENCE page 58). Last year, after processing nearly 14,000 export-license applications from private firms, Washington's Office of Munitions Control approved sales to 136 countries totaling $8.3 billion. (Actual deliveries, of course, lag considerably behind sales.) This represents 46% of total world sales. Included were rifles and mortars to Guatemala and Paraguay, supersonic jet fighters to West Germany and Brazil, Sidewinder air-to-air missiles...
...raising a $100,000 legal war chest. Some bitter citizens in North Carolina have threatened" the life of State Utility Commission Chairman Marvin Wooten if Duke Power Co.'s call for a 23% increase is approved. Wooten says philosophically: "When you are dealing with a man's pocketbook, it is an emotional matter...
...Cuff. The audience belongs to him, heart, brain and pocketbook. But Jackson's speech-as usual, delivered off the cuff-is for the most part flat and dull. He dwells on the energy crisis, pushing out statistics like a bookkeeper. He lectures, informs, but does not inspire until the last part of the speech, when he talks of international human rights. "I want to see a clear movement of people and ideas across international boundaries," he says, "and, may I say, not just machinery and wheat...
...Majority Leader Mike Mansfield of Montana and Republican Lowell Weicker of Connecticut, that mandates a nationwide rationing program "within 60 days." (Ford announced that he would veto that or any other rationing bill.) But support for rationing is probably strongest among lower-income citizens who worry most about the pocketbook impact of Ford's plan. Rationing was a key part of the AFL-CIO alternative to the Ford program presented by George Meany last week, and it will surely figure prominently in the debate over energy policy in the weeks ahead...
...table below spells out some of the pocketbook benefits of President Ford's proposed income tax cuts...