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There is probably not a single major corporation that does not now employ Washington lobbyists. Ford Motor Co., which kept three representatives in the capital in the early 1960s, today maintains a full-time staff of 40 people. Among the airlines alone, 77 have their separate lobbying staffs in Washington. More than 500 corporations, including some quite small firms, operate Washington lobbies, if only for the sake of what they consider prestige. (Only 100 corporations were represented ten years ago.) Of the roughly 6,000 national trade and professional associations in the U.S., 27% are now headquartered for lobbying effect...
Apart from business and industry, 50 labor unions maintain their separate offices in Washington, often working independently from A.F.L.-C.I.O. Chief George Meany's 300-member staff, which occupies an impressive stone and marble headquarters near the White House. Politically aware action groups also have their lobbyists in Washington, including 14 that pursue the special interests of the elderly and six that deal with air pollution. Even the Virgin Islands Gift Fashion Shop Association has a lobbyist. Large staffs are maintained by such broader public interest groups as Common Cause and the Ralph Nader organization. Grumbles House Speaker...
...much money is chasing too few goods. So you produce more. How? More capital formation, more plant and equipment." He began preparing for the fight in 1975, when he became head of the Washington-based American Council for Capital Formation. Early this year, Walker and the council's staff decided to press for rolling back the maximum capital gains tax, now 49%, to the 1969 level of 25%. The first Congressman they recruited to the idea was Wisconsin Republican William Steiger, who sponsored the legislation. Walker, meanwhile, began buttonholing Congressmen in hallways, countering Treasury Department arguments against...
...feminist objection to volunteerism as a female ghetto may recede. In any case, the needs to be fulfilled transcend the politics of sex. And of age as well. The talent pool of retired Americans, growing larger each year, is an immense resource that should be exploited more, to staff day care centers, for example, and to perform more sophisticated jobs...
...chilly waters off Norway these days, where a fleet of ostensibly civilian Soviet ships has been poking about where it has no apparent business. In the past five weeks, at least ten Russian craft have played nautical cat and mouse with the Norwegians. Says Norway's chief of defense staff, General Sverre Hamre: "We seem to be subject to something like old-fashioned gunboat diplomacy...