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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Neon Sign. Now 61 and a man without a party, McCall will leave the statehouse on Jan. 13. His future is as misty as the Willamette Valley at dawn. He underwent two cancer operations in 1973, but still appears healthy and trim at 6 ft. 3 in., 200 Ibs. Last week McCall was being mentioned as a potential recruit for the Ford Administration. In addition, McCall has been offered a college presidency and a professorship in communications (he was a newspaper and television newsman for 25 years before being elected secretary of state in 1964). But the prospect he talks...
What is this Third Force he talks about? Says McCall: "I think it should be an influence on both parties, like a neon sign that comes on saying, THESE ARE THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, no matter what party you belong to. These commandments would include protecting the environment, stressing energy conservation, developing a new openness in government, creating a national presidential primary and national initiatives, eliminating the seniority system in Congress, protecting consumers...
...first sign of a weakening in the capital boom came in late summer, when real spending declined slightly for a full quarter for the first time in four years. The spending slide has continued since then; the fourth quarter is expected to be off by about 2.4%. What happened? For one thing, there was a lot of "water" in the capital-goods backlog-excess orders spread among several suppliers by companies merely waiting to see who would deliver first. Then came the coal strike and the disastrous auto sales figures from Detroit; says Michael Evans, president of Chase Econometrics Associates...
This movie begins with a sure sign oi trouble to follow: a montage of stills showing cute kids, each representing an ethnic minority, all of them pretty and smiling and irritatingly adorable. Having established this trough at the very outset, Writer-Director Melville Shavelson is free to proceed downward...
Senator Edward M. Kennedy '54 (D-Mass.) led off the testimony by announcing he has been "assured" that President Ford will sign a bill which he says will create an estimated 540,000 new public service jobs nationally and as many as 24,000 new jobs in Massachusetts...