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Should Carter eke out a victory in a state with an equal distribution of blue-and white-collar workers and as great an ethnic mix as anywhere else in the nation, he will be well placed to defeat Favorite Son Lloyd Bentsen in the Texas primary at week's end. That would build a perhaps irresistible momentum for Carter-unless he can be slowed by the forces gathering behind Humphrey...
...Georgian's staff, meanwhile, dismisses Humphrey by claiming that it is Jimmy, not Hubert, who has updated the old Roosevelt coalition with an unbeatable combination of blacks, blue-collar "ethnics," white-collar suburbanites, liberals and conservatives. Boasts Carter of his appeal: "It is just like Bobby Kennedy's." But Carter has not yet demonstrated that he can win in a northern industrial state against his major rivals, Jackson and Udall. His chance comes next week in Wisconsin and New York. The situation in both states was fluid, but the races shaped up last week as follows...
...Olof Palme's Social Democratic Party to build popularity in an election year. The Social Democrats only barely prevailed in the 1973 elections, and Palme faces another severe test at the polls in September. In a cunning bid to woo the country's 3 million blue-and white-collar wage earners Palme decided to make companies and self-employed citizens shoulder the soaring cost of Sweden's cradle-to-grave social programs. At the same time, wage earners were allowed to stop contributing to health insurance and pension plans. As a result, their average tax bite...
...reasons having to do with foreign competition, the limits of growth, and the practical impossibility of raising the productivity of the growing white-collar sector of the economy, the days of massive economic growth are over, according to Bell. Bell and his colleagues fear that at this historical stage the public will run wild: Hateful of sacrifice for the public good, every interest group will demand its accustomed larger share of a non-expanding pie, causing disillusion, further inflation and possible class conflict (which translates into "chaos" for most of the Public Interest theorists). In an economy which...
...that bargain is in effect the unintended heritage of the Xerox machine. Since its perfection less than two decades ago, the green-eyed deus ex machina has helped alter the course of history and changed forever the daily rhythms of white-collar life. The photocopier has, its detractors say, fostered waste, encouraged sloth, stifled creativity and punched holes in the copyright laws. Bureaucrats complain that the machine now makes confidential exchanges all but impossible; foes of official secrecy complain that fear of Xerox-abetted leaks has made bureaucrats more secretive than ever. Whatever the complaint, in view of the social...