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Long Wait. Gubernatorial Candidate Bellmon is less doctrinaire. He wants to modernize the state government, trim the payrolls, and straighten out a badly built road system. Democrat-Atkinson's big argument is for an increase from 2% to 3% in the state sales tax-a plan that has notably failed to capture the voters' imagination. Bellmon obviously senses that victory is within reach. "After 55 years of Democrats," he says, "it's up to us this year to head up an honest, hardworking and harmonious Governor's office. If we don't, it may take...
They discarded the usual plans--open tournaments, professionalism and various publicity stunts--and then a trim, youthful official of the Justice Department who had just finished his eighth consecutive book with the word Enemy in the title, unfolded the project itself. There was occasional sadness in his voice (the undertaking was indeed a last resort), but occasionally his eyes gleamed with boyish delight and muscles rippled energetically beneath a faded, blue Lacoste shirt...
...national army" in the security of training camps in Morocco and Tunisia. He carefully built and husbanded a crack fighting force equipped with Communist-bloc weapons and indoctrinated with Marxist ideas. "It's the best group that ever was," he brags. He kept his units in fighting trim with diversionary attacks on the French army's fortified defense lines across the border, but his troops took no part in the bitter war in Algeria itself. Thus the army's losses were trifling compared with those of the guerrilla fighters in the Algerian wilayas. Boumedienne is detested...
Married. Jack Lemmon, 37, deft, Oscar-winning (Mister Roberts) film comedian; and Felicia Dines Farr, 29, trim, brown-eyed television actress; both for the second time; in Paris...
Powerful Foes. Amini had tried to persuade his Cabinet, especially the army, to trim expenditures. The Shah could have used his authority to back the Premier's demands, but did not. While the ministers argued over the budget (two even came to blows), the financial crisis deepened, partly as a result of Amini's realistic reforms. The Treasury lost a major source of revenue after a ban on foreign luxury goods reduced import duties to almost zero; the punctured inflationary balloon resulted in a recession...