Word: dec
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Ford continued to grapple with problems of fratricide within his own staff, mainly between his recent appointees and Nixon holdovers. The imminent exit of Chief of Staff Alexander Haig, who was approved by the NATO Council last week as Supreme Allied Commander of Europe effective Dec. 15, will help; more departures may follow...
...Resemblance. Ford's press conference was his first as President but the 56th that he has held since Dec. 6, when he was inaugurated as Vice President. It took place in the White House's East Room, which was jammed with newsmen, just as it had been for his predecessor's infrequent sessions with reporters-37 in 5½ years as President. But there the resemblance to the Nixon press conferences ended...
...have gained from life, with all the confidence of my family, my friends and my dedicated staff impart to me, and with the good will of countless Americans I have encountered in recent visits to 40 states, I now solemnly reaffirm my promise I made to you last Dec. 6: to uphold the Constitution, to do what is right as God gives me to see the right, and to do the very best I can for America...
...These new "cold type" procedures are dramatically faster; a photocomposing machine can spew out 150 lines a minute, compared to three lines a minute for a man and a Linotype. At a number of papers like the Los Angeles Times, Dallas Times-Herald, Miami Herald and Detroit News (TIME, Dec. 17), the technology is dazzling. Reporters compose their stories on keyboards attached to a computer and a small video screen-a sort of electronic "page." Editors call up the finished stories on their own screens, on which they can do their editing, and transfer final versions back into the computer...
Adding to the President's woes was the release of a new Judiciary Committee volume of evidence on Nixon's income taxes. Among several embarrassing disclosures was confirmation that when, on Dec. 8 of last year, the President publicly asked the Joint Committee on Internal Revenue Taxation to look into his taxes, he had just the day before been privately notified that the Internal Revenue Service was about to do the same thing...