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Henry Ford, after looking at the disaster he had on his hands, pulled back and offered "a better idea." When January ends with the Clemency Board in shambles, the Ford Administration should take that cue and introduce a 1975 model with unconditional amnesty...
These old and new gods meet in something like a boxing ring that represents Dysart's office; Dysart recalls the progress of the case and the characters he talks of come in on cue, sometimes getting up out of seats they occupy in the student-section-grandstand that faces the regular seating from the back of the stage. The horses are played by lithe men in brown corduroy, with soldered skeletons of horse's hooves and pullover horse's heads. Everything works, except for the use of loudspeakers to amplify the horse's cries; but these aren't used often...
Ford, looking tired but relaxed and reflective, gently steered the conversation to the problems of presidential leadership in an era of pessimism. The scholars picked up the cue. Boorstin told the President that skepticism about political leaders is inherent and healthy in democracy. Diamond noted that the challenge of leadership is to balance skepticism with trust. Wilson observed that the malaise in America had increased since the 1950s particularly because many people felt that the quality of life had not kept pace with technological advance. Ford suggested that perhaps the pendulum had swung too far toward a national "self-destructive...
...tell who's going to win," Crowell said. "Harvard is always strong, and they always seem to perform at their best against us. It should be a close meet." If the thinclads took their cue from their squash and swimming counterparts, they should be well prepared for battle...
Kiely said Thursday that he did not know whether or not Pipkin would now assume chairmanship of the CUE. However, Dean Rosovsky said Pipkin's post, unlike Kiely's, "is essentially an executive...