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There was Lester Maddox, happily pouring coffee for 100 Georgia legislators just as if he were back at the Pickrick, his onetime restaurant. Maddox had good reason to be happy -and to pour for the legislators, who were at tending a forum on government at the University of Georgia. As a result of a decision handed down last week by the U.S. Supreme Court, the Georgia legislature in January will bestow the state's governorship on either Democrat Maddox, 51, or Republican Howard ("Bo") Callaway, 39, neither of whom received a majority in the November general election. The likely...
What surely will temper Reagan is the job he will take on next January. The task of running the most populous state in the Union, accommodating the 1,000 new arrivals who pour in daily, satisfying California's insatiable demands for more schools, roads, hospitals and?not least?water, demands an activist Governor. However great the momentum of past programs, the impetus of growth in such states as New York and California has invariably proved greater. Actually, though he has promised to cut back on wasteful state programs, Reagan admits that his "creative society" will not come cheap...
...making something that we only half need, but we've got people busy making, and people selling it," observes University of Southern California Economist E. Bryant Phillips. Fancy packaging may not be vital, but it can be useful, and housewives like it-enough to pour nearly $11 billion into American workers' pockets...
Local Touch. Along with the Narodny bank, which also has a highly successful Middle East branch in Beirut, the Russians operate the Banque Commerciale pour 1'Europe du Nord in Paris. Founded in 1921 by expatriate White Russians, the B.C.E.N.-as Parisians call it-was sold to the Communist government in 1925, has since become a major Paris bank and has assets of $624 million. Like the new Wozchod bank in Switzerland, the B.C.E.N. operates with a mainly local board; the president is Guy de Boysson, 45, a French nobleman who once held Communist Party membership...
Large sums of federal research money pour into Harvard annually, financing everyone from accelerator specialists to zoologists. The recipients hire more graduate students, buy new equipment, do more research, and record their thanks for the grants in the footnotes to their articles...