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...Hillenbrand spent six days covering a long round of speeches and committee meetings at the conference site at the Crillon Hotel. The rather quiet routine was enlivened briefly by the speech of General Juan Velasco Alvarado, head of Peru's leftist military junta. Resplendent in his full-dress uniform, Velasco held up Peru's revolution as a model for developing nations. But at week's end, while filing his story to New York, Hillenbrand heard a brusque announcement over the pressroom television that Velasco had been deposed by a coalition of military leaders. He quickly switched gear...
...reluctantly signed a bill removing 18,000 employable people from welfare-a first-time cut prompted by fiscal pressures. Officials of New York and other hard-pressed states are campaigning to get the Federal Government to pick up all or a larger share of the full welfare burden, with uniform eligibility rules. (Specifically, Commissioner Berger is asking that Washington pay 75% of all AFDC in states where unemployment exceeds...
...conservatives as a handout, criticized by liberals as too stingy and virtually abandoned by Nixon, who failed to lobby for it and let it die in the Senate in 1972. When all the hearings and early skirmishing are over, Ford will probably recommend some form of single and uniform federal cash grants, with tougher procedures for determining who should get them. But whatever he proposes, he will be doing it in a volatile election year, and the temptation on all sides to score political points will be strong...
...graphic headlines (HOW YOUR SWEAT FINANCES CROOKS' CADILLACS) and explosive stories, but truckers have also been attracted by the offer of free collect calls for legal advice, tips on taxes-and cheesecake. The independents also came to respect Parkhurst for his crusades to get clean truck stops and uniform trailer lengths, and for his no-nonsense technical reports on new trucks...
Finley never stops looking for new players or trading for established veterans. "No team is ever set," he says, "even a winner." Of the 26 players on the winning team in the 1972 World Series, only nine are still in Oakland uniform: Jackson, Rudi, Tenace, Bando, Campaneris, Blue, Fingers, Southpaw Ken Holtzman and Reserve Outfielder Angel Mangual...