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...Fords seem completely at ease among the caviar-and-crepe set. They have been making Vail their vacation home since 1969, and four years ago bought a three-bedroom condominium above the village. Every winter, when Washington turns gray and damp, Ford looks forward impatiently to getting back to the powdery snow and thin, crisp...
...pests. It was a bout of wet, chilly air during the growing season that apparently touched off the Middle Ages' outbreaks of St. Anthony's fire -excruciatingly painful convulsions and gangrenous hands and feet that are caused by a fungus which grows on rye in cold, damp weather. Some changes, to be sure, could be beneficial. The Midwest's corn growers expect harvests to go up in slightly chillier weather (because the cold reduces water losses through evaporation). But in most cases, any changes in climate mean trouble for farmers...
...Wage and Price Stability, Ford said, "I emphasize, in fact re-eniphasize, that this is not a compulsory wage and price control agency." By seeking authority to impose wage and price controls on concentrated industries that have the power to administer prices, the President might have been able to damp inflation, though perhaps at undue political and bureaucratic cost...
...heat of the pennant race, but I sat through nearly seven hours of baseball in Fenway Park to watch my teams surrender a four-run lead in the ninth inning then lose in the tenth. Afterwards, I washed down the defeat with rancid coffee, several perusals of the damp and dismal scorecard, and the lofty notion that I had, after all, witnessed a game that would slosh itself into history--perhaps as the famous Rain Game...
...literary career, which brought him in youth the heady "forefeel of fame" and later allowed him to strut as "a fat, famous writer in his powerful forties." Lechery has been a constant, though a Humbert-Lolita relationship with his daughter never flowered to the extent that he, in damp imagining, would have liked. Yet to each of four prospective brides, he has had to admit that he is cracked: "I have a confession to make, Iris, concerning my mental health...