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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...only when Safer led her into a discussion of premarital sex that some viewers' moral blood pressure really rose. Asked what her attitude would be if her 18-year-old daughter Susan confided that she was having an affair, Betty Ford replied: "Well, I wouldn't be surprised. I think she's a perfectly normal human being like all young girls. If she wanted to continue, I would certainly counsel and advise her on the subject. And I'd want to know pretty much about the young man ... whether it was a worthwhile encounter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: WHITE HOUSE: On Being Normal | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

Jerry Ford's hold on the future is still tenuous. Despite a successful transition year. Despite some encouraging economic signs. Despite the successful Mayaguez affair. Despite the Helsinki summit meeting...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY by HUGH SIDEY: The Days of the Dog Star | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...even tougher passage. Phyllis, starring Cloris Leachman, and Fay, with Lee Grant, came close to never getting on the air at all. Phyllis Executive Producer Ed Weinberger almost choked when CBS meddled with the pilot, in which the widowed Phyllis suspects her 17-year-old daughter of having an affair. Says Phyllis, as she ends an explanatory phone conversation with her daughter: "Nothing happened-if she is telling the truth." CBS cut the tag line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Television: No Time for Comedy | 8/25/1975 | See Source »

...Hoffa shortly before he disappeared, in the hope of coaxing some leads from their memories of the recent conversations. Within Hoffa's family, which posted a $200,000 reward for his return, a bitter feud developed as one member sharply accused another of knowing more about the affair than he was saying...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INVESTIGATIONS: Hoffa Search: 'Looks Bad Right Now' | 8/18/1975 | See Source »

...lives off the main highway, a two-lane, black-top affair. A rutty dirt road leads to his gate and a sign warning off all trespassers not on foot. From a parked green Capri, the two flat-landers later seen by the source stared at us in a not altogether pleasant manner, and they were big and ugly and smelt sort of funny so I gave the biggest and ugliest of them--a bulging, pale fish-eyed creature with sweated-back hair and a dim-witted, monotone voice--a warm beer. He smiled...

Author: By Edmond P.V. Horsey, | Title: Elsewhere in the Summer, at Pegleg Mac's | 8/12/1975 | See Source »

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