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...area that Ford was in danger. Swiftly, a cordon of men formed around the shaken President. Two agents pulled down on his suit jacket, forcing the tall (6 ft. 2 in.) Ford to bend so that he was partially concealed by the group. Then, moving at a brisk walk, the party swept through the park past the startled spectators and into the safety of the capitol...
Before leaving for work, Doug takes a brief stroll down the narrow path to the bottom of his garden. Barrel-chested and brisk-gaited, as befits a onetime gymnast, he is a compact man who gives his height as "5 ft., buggerall" but is more like 5 ft. 5 in. He pauses to check his tomatoes, cucumbers, cabbages, beans, potatoes and onions. "These are my pride and joy," he says. "I look after them like my union members...
...grinning from a heart-shaped valentine of daisies. "I see them as very affectionate portraits, but I don't know how she would see them," said Treadwell, explaining why he did not send the Queen an invitation to his exhibit. Despite her absence, he added, business has been brisk with tourists. The Queen, he said happily, "is good for exports...
...villain, heavy borrowing by the Treasury to finance the Ford Administration's $60 billion budget deficit has also helped to push interest rates higher. So, too, has a deliberate tightening of monetary policy by the Federal Reserve Board. Having allowed the money supply to expand at an unusually brisk annual rate of 14% to 15% during May and June, the Federal Reserve cut back slightly in July to bring monetary growth more in line with its announced goal of 5% to 7½% per year. Chairman Arthur Burns has been emphasizing recently that the nation's central bank...
...profit motive was plentifully in evidence at Conrad Hilton convention headquarters, where hucksters did a brisk business in Star Trek artifacts from space suit emblems to books (Bantam and Ballantine together have printed more than 6 million Star Trek paperbacks) to a $5 kit containing a dozen scale blueprints of the Enterprise. There were photographs for sale of Skipper Kirk, played by William Shatner, and First Officer Mr. Spock (Leonard Nimoy), a pointy-eared half human, half Vulcanite who has become a cult unto himself. Many of the new Spock generation attending the convention wore plastic ears like their hero...