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...rather than showy. Dancing the role of Winter, Mette Hønningen-her arms gently curved and her shoulders very straight-gazed directly at the audience and glided through intricate patterns of quick, tiny steps that flowed like pulse beats. This is the true Danish style-a soft, romantic candor. It traces its roots to French ballet and is a legacy of August Bournonville, the chief designer of the Danes' classic technique, who studied in Paris before being appointed the Danish ballet master...
...Breezy Candor. The President had his family working for him. Son Jack, 24, stumped the state with a breezy candor. With the Citizen's Band radio in her car, Betty found a new medium to project the Ford message (see MODERN LIVING). A fascinated Texas press picked up every word uttered by "First Mama." Reagan's family was less in evidence but equally hardworking. His wife Nancy spent six days in Texas, appearing on radio and TV interviews. Son Ron, 17, joined the press bus to gather information for a political science paper he was writing for school...
Jerry Ford, who in many ways has proved quite responsive to the times in which he lives, has presented the profiles of his health, his spirit, his mind, his family with unprecedented candor. Just last week he revealed that 42% of his gross income of $250,000 was paid last year in federal, state and local taxes-a total of $106,500. In the old days that was not done. But now it is a necessary measure of whether a politician puts his money where his mouth is, the enduring test of sincerity...
Ford may not have wished to tip off Panama to the eventual U.S. negotiating position, and he clearly did not want to confront the issue in an election year. If Ford lacked some political candor, his attitude nevertheless was much more sensible than Reagan's jingoistic refusal even to consider that outright, unyielding ownership of the canal may no longer serve any vital U.S. interest. Indeed, insistence upon that ownership may produce only needless hostility between the U.S. and its remaining friends in Latin America and the Third World...
...clause would take. Kuhn eventually ordered the owners to open up their camps, but there is still no agreement. Whatever new contract is worked out, players hereafter will be able to attain independence after a given number of years in the game. In a rare burst of candor, Kuhn says of the old reserve clause: "Modifications were overdue...