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Unhappily for the Republicans, the election was an almost perfect laboratory test of their prospects for the fall. "If it sells in Grand Rapids, it will sell anywhere," market researchers are fond of saying about an area where all kinds of products are routinely tested, from Lipton's soup...
The depth of the pessimism is not always apparent; the drop has been interrupted by some spectacular, though short rallies. One volcanic surge that carried over into early last week lifted the Dow Jones industrial average 60-odd points in three days. One reason: heavy selling has depressed prices of...
Few Chileans were neutral about the President. Although their lavish lifestyle was only marginally diminished, the rich−5% of the population controlling 20% of its resources−despised him for seizing the property from which their wealth had come. The middle class, squeezed by inflation and plagued with shortages...
Nixon and his advisers had some reason to follow Burns' lead. For one thing, the variable tax plans could be a valuable fine-tuning mechanism in U.S. fiscal policy. Perhaps more to the point−taxes being one issue that is guaranteed to attract attention−Nixon may have...
As best he could, Nixon tried to show leadership by once more seizing the initiative. He went to New Orleans to deliver a tough speech before the Veterans of Foreign Wars, in which he defended the secret bombing of Cambodia and said that he would be willing to do it...