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Describing Romney as an "admittedly susceptible man," the previously sympathetic Chicago Daily News asked whether the U.S. "can afford as its leader a man who, whatever his positive virtues, is subject to being cozened, flimflammed and taken into camp." More damaging yet, the Detroit News, long one of the Michigan Governor's strongest supporters, announced in a lead editorial that it can no longer back him for the G.O.P. nomination and suggested that Romney quit the race in favor of New York's Governor Nelson Rockefeller, a man "who knows what he believes...
...Ford can afford such candor, of course, since he has the solid support of a heavily Republican district that has sent him to the House in ten consecutive elections. Moreover, last week's soundings back home supported his own nerve-end feeling, and that of many other G.O.P. leaders, that the Republicans have a fighting chance of recapturing the White House next year-and of winning enough seats in the House to elevate Jerry Ford from minority leader to speaker...
...male, the impact is more obvious if less real. In magazines devoted to his interests, the happily unmarried man is seen surrounded by elaborate hi-fi speakers (which he may never be able to afford), appealed to by makers of Great Books and good booze (which he may never read or drink), praised by haberdashers and hairdressers for his swinging singularity (which he earnestly aspires to), and pursued by indefatigably seductive girls. Once a docile follower of the style of his elders, the new bachelor finds himself the mold of fashion, with his mating plumage studied and envied by beaten...
...doubt that he has occasionally accepted the shadowy perquisites that go with high office throughout most of Asia. On his lieutenant general's salary of $509 a month (the President's salary has not yet been fixed), he has reportedly managed to accumulate considerable acreage, and can afford to send Mme. Thieu to Paris now and then for a shopping spree...
...handful of scuttled ships blocking the waterway could be cleared away in a month, but silting from its sandy banks may require fresh dredging. Oilmen glumly predict that Egypt's Nasser will keep the artery closed at least until year's end and perhaps indefinitely. He can afford to sacrifice his chief source of foreign exchange because other Arab states promised in Khartoum to give Egypt a $266 million-a-year subsidy-about equal to the canal's annual toll revenues...