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More in Michigan. Faced both with declining revenues as a result of the automobile sales slump and the need for increased state expenditures, George Romney asked the Michigan legislature for state income taxes on individuals (21%), corporations (5%), and banks and other financial institutions (8%) to balance record expenditures of $1.15 billion, up $128 million from last year. If new taxes are not levied, he warned, the budget will drop $147 million into...
Michigan lawmakers have twice turned down previous Romney requests for income taxes, and last week's message displayed a measure of political courage. For much of the Governor's allure as a Republican presidential prospect has come from his ability-bolstered by booming auto sales-to bring Michigan back to full fiscal health. If the state should fall back into fiscal crisis, his national ambitions would also recede. Yet Romney not only refused to cut back what he regarded as essential spending programs, he also proposed increased outlays for education, social and medical welfare and conservation...
...promoting the low-priced ($2,073) Rambler-along with a separate $300,000 splash of ads plugging the company's size and zest-American was obviously trying to regain the image of its halcyon days. Back in the '50s, then-President George Romney captured most of the U.S. market for compacts with his hoots at larger models as "gas-guzzling dinosaurs." Though American followed along with other models (Ambassador, Marlin) when car buyers' taste returned to the larger size, and even stretched the length and breadth of some Ramblers, its share of U.S. auto sales steadily slipped...
...Turret. The blizzard's main force battered a 100-mi.-wide strip extending from northeast Missouri to southern Michigan, inconveniencing millions. After widespread freezing rain, ice-laden power lines snapped, leaving dozens of entire communities-and 4,000 families in Kansas City-without electricity. In Michigan, Governor George Romney donned a Cossack hat, commandeered a lumbering National Guard half-track and, grandly manning the turret, cried out encouragement to the citizenry as he rode to the state capitol. In Gary, winds off Lake Michigan piled up 15-ft. snowdrifts, and Indi- ana's Governor Roger Branigin mobilized...
...guest list with an eye to political realities. First came Defense Secretary Robert McNamara, whose appearance touched off a raucous student protest (TIME, Nov. 18). Then came Republican House Minority Leader Gerald Ford, followed by Detroit's Democratic Mayor Jerome Cavanagh. Scheduled this spring are Republican George Romney and Democrat Carl Sanders, former Governor of Georgia...