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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acre. The Funk Prairie Home, once center of a 25,000-acre farm, is now a museum, and the seed company is a division of Ciba-Geigy. Land that McNulta bought for $150 an acre now hovers around $4,000 an acre, too much for anyone ever to start out farming there now, but not a bad price for to day's farmer/investor to use as a tax write-off. The Osage orange hedges, planted a hundred years ago against the chilling wind, are being torn out, because machinery these days needs more room just to turn around...
That seems unlikely. The uproar over his Iranian observation was the latest in a series of mishaps that have troubled the start of his campaign. He entered the race earlier than he had planned, with his organization in disarray, but under the glare of constant publicity. From the start he had trouble dealing with abstract questions such as his idea of how to assert leadership. He explains: "There is a problem moving from the day-to-day life of a Senator, where you are involved in the details of legislation, to a campaign, where the expression of issues is quite...
...unprepossessing start of the Kennedy campaign has been reflected in the lack of endorsements that might have been expected. A source close to New York Governor Hugh Carey, a Kennedy friend who has not yet committed himself, called the campaign "a plummeting star." In Arizona Kennedy told a crowd that he hoped to carry the state "with a little help from the Udalls." But Liberal Congressman Morris Udall introduced Kennedy only as "the man who some think might be the next President...
...military-industrial complex is in subterranean motion. Within hours of the start of the crisis, men from Lockheed, makers of the giant C-5A troop and equipment airlifter, were in Secretary of Defense Harold Brown's office, reviewing the American capacity to move military forces around the world. And engineers and tacticians from Boeing and McDonnell Douglas scurried to the Pentagon with the announcement of plans for a Marine Rapid Deployment Force. The current official vocabulary has to do with American bases abroad, overflight rights with friendly countries, aerial refueling capacity. The adrenaline is flowing, but there are some...
...Elizabeth Black Civic Organization (PEBCO), concedes that Ford is perhaps the "best" employer of blacks in the country, he has been prodding its management to respond to a long list of demands. He has attacked Ford's sponsorship of an all-white rugby team and special privileges that start new white employees at the top of the pay scale for a given job while blacks start at the bottom. Botha has also complained to Ford's management about black political disenfranchisement, over which the company has no control...