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...union leaders, oilmen, builders and other constituencies that are likely to be affected to a series of 21 White House miniconferences on energy. For the last, at week's end, 19 ordinary citizens, chosen at random from around the country-including two students, a housewife and a cattle rancher-huddled in the Executive Office Building with Administration energy experts...
...Hill installs as his new board of directors all the little people who helped him beat his deadline - a widow, a kindly barfly, a dispossessed rancher, a cable-car conductor, and so on. The Frank Capra of Mr. Deeds would have used this simplistic notion to say something stirring, if sentimental, about social inequities and financial gouging. Here the situation is squandered for a few strained jokes. The viewer is left with the uncharitable suspicion that the conglomerate - and the film - would have been better off in the hands of experts with less good intentions...
...Washington in protecting their lands and livelihood. Said Ron Francis, director of the Denver-based American National Cattlemen's Association: "We are against Government support in general. We support the law of supply and demand, but we need price support and emergency livestock loans." In Douglas County, Wash., Rancher Gary Dalin swelled with pride because his 16-year-old daughter Heidi had just been named local Beef Princess. But in other respects he bemoaned the farmer's lot. Said he: "Just when the price begins to get a little better, we're seeing cows coming in from...
Died. Joao ("Jango") Goulart, 58, Brazil's last civilian President (1961-64); of a heart attack; in the Argentine province of Corrientes, where he lived in exile. A prosperous cattle rancher and lawyer, Goulart first gained prominence as Brazil's Labor Minister, a post he lost in 1954 after unsuccessfully promoting a 100% increase in the minimum wage. His presidential term was marked by controversy and disorder as he tried to lead his country on a leftist course amid economic crisis. The conservative armed forces, actively supported by business leaders, ousted Jango...
...Republicans who picked up Democratic seats included ex-Astronaut Harrison Schmitt over Joseph Montoya in New Mexico, Rancher Malcolm Wallop over Three-Term Veteran Gale McGee in Wyoming, Tax Lawyer Orrin Hatch over Frank Moss in Utah and former Navy Secretary John Chafee over Richard Lorber in Rhode Island. Among the Democrats who gained Republican seats: Tucson Attorney Dennis DeConcmi over Sam Steiger in Arizona, Congressman Spark Matsunaga over former Governor William Quinn in Hawaii, Congressman Paul Sarbanes over Incumbent Glenn Beall in Maryland and Omaha Mayor Edward Zorinsky over John McCollister in Nebraska. Some of the most intriguing races...