Word: contrasts
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Officially, Ford will not begin his campaign until the week of Sept. 12, when he will speak at the University of Michigan, his alma mater. The President intends to talk of his plans for the future of America, hoping to make a favorable contrast with the evocation of the past created by Carter's pilgrimage to Warm Springs. But officially or not, the President will be campaigning hard this week. An edited version of his socko acceptance speech will be shown on CBS-TV. The President Ford Committee bought the air time, for $86,000, because the speech was delivered...
...contrast to the smoothly functioning Carter apparatus, the Ford headquarters is still in a scramble after the long battle to win in Kansas City. A number of basic budget decisions have not been made, though about $10 million has been allocated for media blitzes. At one point last week, two staffers were separately scheduling the campaign itinerary of Senator Robert Dole, Ford's running mate...
Nixon, by contrast, seized on the topic to proclaim: "I see mothers holding their babies up so that they can see a man who might be President ... It makes you realize that whoever is President is going to be a man that all the children of America will either look up to or will look down to. And I can only say that I am very proud that President Eisenhower restored dignity and decency and, frankly, good language to the conduct of the presidency of the United States." The Nixon tapes, of course, later showed just how self-righteous that...
Partly with that comic contrast in view, Douglas Wallop (The Year the Yankees Lost the Pennant) has just finished a novel about mixed doubles and infidelity in the suburbs. Another effort, Courting by Sue Costello, promises to be a tennis player's version of Fear of Flying. But the best stories of the mixed-doubles scene might better be told by a writer like Edward Albee of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, who could chronicle the explosive marital tensions of the game. "What we'll soon need around here," says California's celebrated tennis pro Vic Braden, "is mixed...
Though heart transplants have been more often in the headlines, the results with kidneys have been far more enduring. Of some 25,000 known kidney transplants performed in the past two decades, nearly half of the recipients are still alive today. In contrast, of the 316 heart transplants that have been performed since the first successful operation in 1967, only 63 patients survive...