Hello all, Since the car got to the point that it would barely run at all, I had to start over with the basics, check spark etc. I put a test light on the points and got spark again and again until, low and behold, all of a sudden no light! Even though I had previously cleaned and reset the points and verified spark, I now pulled them out and literally sanded/polished them, noticing that they, and condenser, are "after market" cheapies . I now re-installed and adjusted them again and, shazam! All my running problems are gone. Since the car's running deteriorated by degree after the initial points clean and set, I suspect a bad condenser may have caused extra arc-ing. (I've ordered a new Bosch set)
Perfect idle, plenty of smooth power, yahoo! Done. Thanks so much for getting me to run through and check the F.I. direction. I had already verified that the ignition was working, only to find out that it was an intermittent/by degree problem that would not show itself during static testing of the individual components. Thanks to all again!