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...into some flak from Common Cause for his acceptance of $10,000 in contributions from the A.M.A., twice the amount allowed one contributor by law. He claims it was legal. However, with a $500,000 budget, thousands of precinct workers, and an aura of the Eagle Scout (he actually was one), Lugar looks like a winner over Hartke...
...talked about as an advertisement. The less memory of slickness left in people's minds, the more we will have accomplished." Example of MacDougall's unslick touch: Ford never wears makeup. One 5-min. piece is a biography of the President, stressing his command positions, from Eagle Scout to football captain to House minority leader. A 60-sec. commercial, aired last week, describes the nation's recuperation from Watergate and offers a new slogan: "President Ford. He's making us proud again...
...struck out. But Alston's tenure as manager of the Brooklyn, later the Los Angeles, Dodgers definitely went into extra innings. After 23 consecutive one-year contracts, seven National League pennants and four world championships, Alston, 64, last week announced his retirement to become a Dodger super-scout. "There comes a time when you get enough of everything," explained the quiet man of baseball, hinting that today's breed may not be to his taste. "Most players who made the majors spent much more time in the minors than they do now," he observed. "And the player...
...prototypical Midwesterner -big, bluff, hearty, unassuming, everyone's favorite neighbor. Gerald Rudolph Ford Jr.-Eagle Scout, football hero, Yale Law School alumnus, 13-term Congressman, House minority leader, accidental President -never aspired to the office he inherited. Since Aug. 9, 1974, his strengths and faults have been on public display. If what makes Jimmy Carter tick still remains obscure to millions of Americans, Ford is no secret to anyone...
Elusive Racket. The Mob's operation is highly sophisticated. Some families are believed to own North Carolina dealerships, which supply them with cigarettes free of the North Carolina tax stamp. Their trucks are equipped with two-way radios and escorted by scout cars on the lookout for police. On a typical run, the cigarettes are loaded onto giant tractor-trailers capable of hauling as many as 60,000 cartons at a time. As they near their destination, they are transferred to smaller trucks to reduce the risk of detection and the loss in case of seizure. Once...