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...deep, hurled the Jaguar into the air and sent stones flying for several hundred yards. The ambassador and a secretary, Judith Cook, 25, were killed. Gravely injured were the chauffeur and Brian Cubbon, British Permanent Under Secretary of State for Northern Ireland, who had come from Belfast to confer with the new ambassador...
Press Secretary Jody Powell passed the word that Carter had sternly admonished his staff about being too cocky. This week Carter will confer with Democratic congressional leaders. Next week he will attend a meeting of mayors in Milwaukee, and the week after he will appear at the National Governors' Conference in Hershey, Pa. At these and other stops, he can be expected to soothe factions that opposed...
...Roman gravitas, public men in disgrace fell upon their swords. Today they fall upon their pens. Such impalings have been especially popular and profitable for the resigned, the indicted and the convicted of the Nixon Administration. Publishers were quick to confer gilt by association upon men like John Dean, Jeb Stuart Magruder and Charles Colson. Next to come is John Ehrlichman, who dropped out in some Paraguay of the mind to write a novel whose chief character is a "President Richard Monckton...
...constitutional terms, as some American founding fathers ?notably John Adams?believed, a hereditary monarchy can confer a sense of continuity upon elected governments and assure legitimacy to a new chief executive who, like Gerald Ford or James Callaghan, may not have been popularly elected...
...They spend weeks away from their homes in the South, crisscrossing the nation and working 18-hour days under extreme pressure. Only rarely do they all get together with the candidate at his campaign headquarters in a modern office building on Atlanta's Peachtree Street. Usually they must confer with him by phone or on the run-in the brief privacy of an auto, an elevator or a motel room...