Word: auge
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...think the public would stand for it." On the day that Ford was inaugurated as President, his press secretary, J.F. terHorst, reiterated that statement to reporters. On Sunday, immediately before Ford's speech, terHorst resigned in protest against the pardon. At his first press conference on Aug. 28, Ford said that he was not ruling out the possibility of a pardon, but "there have been no charges made, there has been no action by the courts, there has been no action by any jury, and until any legal process has been undertaken, I think it is unwise and untimely...
...another day, the President surrounded himself with some of the most outspoken women in Congress, among them New York Representatives Bella Abzug and Shirley Chisholm, as he signed a proclamation making Aug. 26, the 54th anniversary of women's suffrage, Women's Equality Day. He also urged that the remaining states ratify the Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution. Quipped one of the women at the gathering: "It looks like a chorus line." Responded Ford: "You girls are the Rockettes." It is a measure of both the times and Ford's style that he got away with...
With Ankara in clear command of all the territory it apparently wanted, the wheels of diplomacy, which had been stopped by the Aug. 14 breakdown of the Geneva talks, once again began turning. Cyprus President Glafkos Clerides, the Greek leader, flew to Athens to consult with Premier Constantino Caramanlis, while Clerides' opposite number on the Turkish side, Rauf Denktaş, returned from Ankara after similar consultations with Premier Ecevit. The U.S. and Britain, meanwhile, were feverishly working behind the scenes to persuade Athens and Ankara to come to some kind of agreement...
...events leading to GM's decision began in the final hours of the Nixon Administration. GM Executive Vice President Oscar Lundin and Vice President Henry Welch flew to Washington on Aug. 8-the day of Nixon's resignation speech-for a meeting with Herbert Stein, chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers, and Kenneth Rush, Economic Counsellor to the President. Following a decade-old GM practice, they came to give advance notice of the scheduled increase and explain why, in GM's view, it was justified...
...Episcopal Church. For an emergency session of the church's House of Bishops, 150 prelates had assembled to discuss what to do about an extraordinary breach of canon law in the 3.1 million member denomination: the ordination of eleven women as priests last month in Philadelphia (TIME, Aug...