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...this a crank call? Are you one of those Reagan people?" Ford bellowed. "Betty, someone else is asking me to be the vice president...
...past four years, Morrow has been a principal writer of the TIME Essay, which he calls "a combination of editorial, crank letter and private meditation." A onetime U.S. Senate page and Harvard English major, he came to the magazine in 1965 from the Washington Star. He has a bit of family history on his office wall: an old photo of Great-Grandfather Albert Morrow, a 19th century U.S. Cavalry officer. The younger Morrow's meditation on the rediscovery of America appears in the Nation section, but he brings to the subject the same subtlety, wit and fascination with...
...week, when he has promised to report to Congress on his plans for draft registration. Under existing statutes, he can order registration of young men, presumably between the ages of 18 and 26. But only Congress can appropriate the money-$10 million by the Administration's estimate-to crank up the registration machinery, and it would have to approve any White House request to register women. Such a request would set off one of the bitterest fights of the legislative session, and one that would surely spill over into both the presidential and congressional election campaigns...
...about 38%. Real growth spurted 7.3% in 1978 and rose another 7.5% or so last year. Per capita income is up to $1,500; in real terms, the people are at least back around the income levels of 1970. That was when Allende was elected and began to crank up the printing presses to cover spiraling government deficits that led to economic disaster...
...year-old painting contractor who uses his telephone name as an advertising gimmick, telling potential customers to look him up in the back of the book in stead of handing out business cards. The listing yields jobs, but it also brings a few zingers: Holland has received crank calls in the middle of the night from as far away as Australia. And his phone bill often totals over $400. "People making illegal calls from phone booths look up the last name in the book and charge them to me," he explains. "I don't pay a damn...