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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inflation and unemployment. And the thought of convening another Camp David-style summit makes Administration aides shudder. Carter said it is "not my preference," and one senior official declared emphatically: "It is the last thing we want." With the Guadalupe summit of the West's leaders, a crucial round of the arms talks and a visit by China's Teng Hsiao-p'ing all approaching, the calendar does not even have room for a second Camp David...
...President took the idea with him to the London economic summit meeting and halfway round the world to India. Members of Congress began to notice that they could call up Carter more easily and quickly than Hamilton Jordan, his chief aide. They did. Reporters wanted firsthand conversations with him. Special interests, like the blacks, no longer found satisfaction in complaining to Cabinet officers. They sought the President and they found...
...participants describe it, the vote-buying operation followed standard procedure. The night before the election, top moneymen met in a private home in Leesville, the parish seat, to map out their strategy. Some $40,000 was divided among men called haulers who would round up voters and pay $5 to $15 per ballot. Each hauler received $50 to $75 for his services along with a free tank of gas and the promise of a bonus if the right...
Last week, in an announcement that excited physicists round the world, University of Massachusetts Astronomer Joseph H. Taylor added new weight to the Einsteinian case. At a gathering of astrophysicists in Munich, Taylor reported indirect experimental evidence affirming a major tenet of general relativity: the existence of gravitational waves. Predicted by Einstein, but never positively detected, this elusive radiation is the carrier of gravity, just as light waves are the carriers of electromagnetism, another of the universe's basic forces...
...meeting last week in Orlando, Fla., backed a proposal that would make their coffers even fuller by creating three divisions in each league to replace the current two. The winners of each division, plus a wild-card team picked on the basis of its record, would stage a two-round play-off for the pennant, instead of the present one-round showdown. The change would further despoil the classic simplicity and suspense of the pennant race, but harvest millions more in TV loot. The owners are expected to vote on the plan next year...