New Hampshire Primary Seen As Early Ford Challenge
The 1976 race in New Hampshire tests President Ford against a hostile field. Meldrim Thomson Jr seeks to redefine Ford as liberal while Ronald Reagan could be drawn in as a rival. Publisher William Loeb leans toward George Wallace and a populist third party, complicating conservative unity ahead of the primary.
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Seventh annual stand-by draft lottery assigns call-up numbers
The seventh annual stand-by draft lottery assigned call-up numbers to men who registered last year and turn 19 this year. The first to be ordered into service would be those born December 8, 1956, with a Leap Year Baby superstition noted for February 12 numbers. Higher numbers remain in holding, lower numbers in available class unless deferment or exemption. Future Equal Rights Amendment could include women in the numbers.
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Ashamed Of Offspring Dr Sworykin on television
Dr Vladimir Sworykin, once pivotal to television, laments the medium's impact as it inhabits American living rooms. Now 85 and retired in Florida, he warns that people are hypnotized by TV and that the on off switch represents the best part of what has become his uneasy legacy.
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Senator Soaper on snow tied ventures and crime trends
The excerpt discusses politics and business in a speculative tone about snow suitable ventures and mentions thefts of paintings rising on the criminal scene. It notes burglars no longer target small engravings and hints the king of Norway may address the UN with undecided topics.
Hart Essays on a Counter Revolution Sparks Two Book Debates
Jeffrey Hart previews two spring releases that promise to reshape political dialogue. Mediocracy by Kevin Phillips and The Making of a New Majority Party by William Rusher offer parallel analyses and bold recommendations. Rusher, editor of National Review, helped craft the 1964 draft Goldwater movement with Clif White.
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Doubleday
Willian Rusher
Sheed and Ward
Rusher
National Review
Clif White
William Rusher
America
William Simon as a wary reformer amid national drift
Treasury Secretary William Simon voices alarm over a potential drift toward welfare reliance and national decline. He cites voter disengagement, Vietnam era unrest, Watergate, and fiscal strain while urging a national will to reverse trends, noting his own unlikely path from Wall Street to government.
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Alexander Hamilton
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Fringe letters warn against gold as safe hedge and push retreats
A columnist argues fringe advisors like Harry Schutz and Harry Browne overstate gold's quick riches. He questions the safety of rural retreats as inflation hedges, notes crime, distribution breakdowns, and emigration limits, and concludes no panacea exists without a productive system free of bureaucratic interference.
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Harry Browne
Parting Shots on Proglems and Home Office Trends
Congressman Sludgepump urges a fresh look at the nation’s proglems, anchored on speeches of his defeated opponent. Dynamic founders of large companies push to build the home office so solid that future remodels will be a real pain in the neck.
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Geographic Qatar Booms As Oil Flows
Washington reports Qatar’s wealth surge as Ambassador Abdullah Al Mana and his wife acquire a $670,000 DC mansion for the embassy. The piece chronicles Qatar’s move from poverty to oil wealth, detailing oil discovery in 1930s, population growth to about 130,000, and benefits like tax abeyance, free healthcare, schooling, and infrastructure boom funded by oil.
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