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...York Times/CBS survey of voters in Ohio and California and a Times survey of New Jersey voters showed that an astonishing 35% of Reagan and Ford supporters plan to vote for Carter if their own favorite fails to win the G.O.P. nomination. This percentage would seem certain to shrink as passions cool following the nomination...
Knudsen still hopes to persuade the banks to pump fresh money into his company. Meanwhile, he is trying to keep White rolling by cutting $38 million this year from operating costs. Among other things, he plans to shrink administrative and sales staffs and close a research-and-development facility. Even if White Motor goes under, there are rumors that several corporations might buy up pieces of the company, if the price were right. But for the moment, both Knudsen's and White's prospects look exceedingly black...
...government could try to shrink the value of the mark, by having the Bundesbank sell deutsche marks for other currencies. But with Chancellor Helmut Schmidt running for re-election in October, such a move is improbable: it would irritate voters by reducing their ability to buy foreign goods and add to European dissension. More important, such a move would anger Germany's trading partners. Anyway, it might not succeed: in these days of free exchange markets, whenever a currency weakens, speculators sell it and buy Swiss francs or deutsche marks. So Germany will probably keep on struggling with...
...Boyd. Whenever anything is about to go wrong at the end of the week-a misplaced sentence, a missing picture caption, an inexplicably overlong story-everyone knows that the man to see is Boyd. He can locate the sentence, rewrite the caption -even, it sometimes seems, mysteriously enlarge or shrink a page. As usual, Boyd was working round the clock till he discharged his last duty late on Saturday: sending instructions to the Chicago printers for each of TIME'S eight international editions. It seemed to be a normal TIME closing last week...
...kidnap General Rene Schneider and the 1972 truck owners' strike that was funded largely with CIA donations, the history of American intervention in Chilean politics is a catalogue of dirty tricks. The actions of American corporations that led to an unofficial economic blockade and the sabotage of the CIA shrink, however, in comparison with the pervasive influence that the Pentagon has exerted on the Chilean armed forces, as well as the military elsewhere in Latin America...