Construction site picketing bill faces Ford veto pressure
Political friction mounts as Secretary Dunlop says Ford faces strong push to veto the long debated construction site picketing bill. Conservatives in Senate allow a Monday vote, House already approved 229 to 189, with Reagan leading Ford in a new Gallup poll and a tense party tension over possible veto.
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Washington
John Dunlop
Ford
Senate
House
Congress
Gallup
Ronald Reagan
Senate House
Jesse Helms
R-N.c
Collector Hoards Some Of Last Convertibles
GLENVIEW Illinois AP Floyd Moore preserves 30 convertibles as the US auto industry ends the ragtop era with Ford GM and Cadillac models fading away By 1977 the last Ford soft tops and the Eldorado convertibles face production end Moore owns 22 Ford Thunderbird convertibles from 1955 to 1966 plus a 1973 Cougar and a 1931 Model A He notes the Thunderbird as the most coveted US car and cites air conditioning hardtops and theft risk as factors in the decline Convertible sales peaked in 1963 at 489824 units then fell to about 25000 in 1975 leaving collectors like Moore as custodians of a fading era
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Moore
Ford Motor Co
Ford
Los Angeles
General Motors Corp
Cadillac
Detroit
Chicago
Michael Sveda
University of Illinois
Abbott
U.S
FDA
Humphrey Seen Winning 1976 Nomination Voice in Wisconsin Poll
A Wisconsin Democratic leaders poll finds 44 percent expect Hubert Humphrey to secure the party nomination for the 1976 presidency. The forecast was released by The Wisconsin Democrat, the party publication.
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Madison, Wis
Wisconsin
Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
The
Wisconsin Democrat
Wheat Prospects Improve in Southern Plains Moisture Rains Aid Winter Crop
The nations 1976 crop of winter wheat will be ready for harvest next summer and has continued to receive beneficial moisture in the southern Plains, where earlier dry weather had dimmed prospects, according to the Agriculture Department.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
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Eau de Cologne
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Osco
Helena
Rubenstein
I. Bernard Weinstein
Columbia University
Food and Drug Administration
Abbott Laboratories
Richard W. Kasperson
Sears
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