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Erector Phrases. In answer to the Democratic slur that an actor can hardly open his mouth unless he has memorized someone else's script, Reagan and his staff emphasize that he writes all his own speeches. Given the swollen staffs of specialists that surround most campaigners nowadays, the endeavor seems anachronistic. Yet, true enough, Reagan sits day after day on his campaign plane or bus hunched over 3-in. by 5-in. index cards, laboriously printing capital letters with a nylon-tip pen-"my speech for the next town." He has a kind of mental Erector set of phrases...
...buying my views; I'm not buying theirs." Most Republicans are undisturbed, if not particularly pleased, by Reagan's attitude. Says former State G.O.P. Chairman Caspar Weinberger, a moderate: "I see no eventuality that Reagan will be influenced by the Birchers. He is willing to surround himself with people of many views." State G.O.P. Chairman Gaylord B. Parkinson, also a middle-roader, says of the candidate, "He's a self-directed, self-motivated man. Nobody can force him to do things. He believes as strongly as I do in party responsibility...
Although the appointments do not seem to foreshadow any shift in U.S. foreign policy they show again the President's ability to surround himself with advisers of proven ability...
...continued to pour into La Feria to share in the "miracle" of Morse's acacia. On Labor Day weekend alone, some 1,500 passed through the chain-link fence. Scorning science, and showing that he knows a miracle when he sees one, Morse has been making plans to surround the tree with paving stones and to erect an awning to shield waiting patrons from the hot Texas sun. Meanwhile, he is waiting patiently for his bountiful acacia to cry again...
...South African economy for survival. Eventually he hopes to create a southern African Common Market, composed of the protectorates, Rhodesia, Portuguese Mozambique and Angola, and perhaps even black-ruled Malawi, where Prime Minister H. Kamuzu Banda has little choice but to be nice to the white lands that surround him. Dominating such a market, of course, would be South Africa...