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...total indifference on the part of the President, who never cared much about the mechanics of national politics, the committee has all but withered away in the past five years. O'Brien, who will handle both jobs without pay?but is anxious to depart immediately after the campaign to replenish his finances?promised to have the committee "updated and strengthened in every...
...help replenish their hard-pressed party coffers, Arizona Republicans and Democrats have rallied around a mutually beneficial scheme for getting the wage-earner financially involved in politics. Under their Pre-Authorized Deduction program (PAD), a contributor gives his bank the right to tap his checking account for a specified amount. The bank charges 3 1/2? per deduction, and the balance is forwarded to the contributor's party. Regular "stockholder reports" will be published tallying how much money was received from the plan and how it was spent. Most politicians think the checkoff system will have broad appeal, attracting...
...practicing Roman Catholic, he often goes on formal church retreats. He is interested in Eastern religions, notably Buddhism, that are "religions of love rather than ethics or morals or obligation or principle." Whenever he can, he goes off to his prefabricated chalet in the Laurentian Mountains where "I replenish my emotions, find my inner directives." With his colleagues, Trudeau is a man of little small talk. He can be moody and, when dealing with lesser intellects, even irritable to the point of arrogance. When pursuing a political goal, he can be fierce, even ruthless...
...gain insight into possibly harmful effects, Oyama has been raising mice and rats in 4-and 8½-ft. radius centrifuges that create artificial gravities from twice to 4.7 times normal and spin continuously except for brief intervals when they are shut down to clean cages and replenish food supplies. When the test animals are finally removed and returned to the normal gravity of earth, their experience is roughly equivalent to that of astronauts suddenly subjected to weightlessness or to a fraction of terrestrial gravity...
...White House Council of Economic Advisers predicted that "a strong revival of demand" would be led by a burst of spending for factories and durable goods. It wasn't. Spotty profits kept businessmen cautious about expansion. Their borrowing served partly to pay off old loans and replenish coffers depleted by the 1966 money squeeze and the spring speedup in corporate tax collections; most of all, it reflected wide expectation that the Reserve Board might tighten up on credit or that the Government would pre-empt borrowable funds. Auto sales dropped to about 8,400,000, 7% below their...