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...almost stifling the first mention of "President-elect Carter." Slowly, very slowly, she recited Ford's telegram: "We must now put the divisions of the campaign behind us and unite the country once again. I congratulate you on your victory. You have my complete and wholehearted support. May God bless you and your family." Then Ford walked into the group of reporters to thank them for their help to him and his family in his two years as President. Said he of the campaign: "Well, we came from way back. Nobody can say we didn't give it a helluva...
...Johnson left office in January 1969. It is, for those who seek the comforts of constancy, a predictable world with the hallmarks of a Republican administration: an economic policy featuring massive unemployment and now even a threatened return to full-employment inflation; an undemocratic foreign policy that has helped bless the world with an intolerably repressive regime in Chile, prolonged killing in Vietnam, and belated, expedient moves against the white minority government in Rhodesia apparently only to save that of South Africa; an approach to civil rights highlighted by the administration's recent blocking of public school surveys vital...
...singing in Bubbling Brown Sugar is also consistently outstanding. Backed by an excellent Duke Ellington-type big band, Ursula Kairson turns in an electric version of "God Bless the Child," while Jay Flash Riley--with the help of some wildly funny ad-libbing--immortalizes an unexpected aspect of religious revivalist meetings. With the exception of the songs specifically composed for Bubbling Brown Sugar, the caliber of music is the highest, and includes many Fats Waller and Duke Ellington standards...
...Earth," the country's leading textbook on physical geology as the primary source for his students in Geology 18, says, "I'm a missionary--I had a goal. I'm trying to convert the world to my religion through the book. So if they read it, God bless 'em. If they don't, what the hell...
...everyone is so successful, of course. Very often the poor remain poor. But there are differences nonetheless. On a small brass strip on a door in Brooklyn's sweltering Keap Street, the inscription says: Diós bendiga nuestro hogar (God Bless our Home). On each side of the inscription there is a tiny enameled flag, Dominican on the left, American on the right. Near by is a name plate that says: Familia Ortega. In the five rooms inside live Erasmo Ortega, 52, and his wife Eloina, 45, and seven of their eight children (a married daughter lives upstairs). Also...