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Dates: during 1970-1979
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While these major changes lie in the future, Ford has already relaxed the mood of the White House and quietly put a number of his closest advisers on his staff. Jerry terHorst, 52, the former political reporter for the Detroit News, is performing capably as Press Secretary. Robert Hartmann, 57, Ford's long time close aide, is ensconced in Rose Mary Woods' old office. Philip Buchen, 58, the President's early law partner back home in Grand Rapids, is White House Counsel. John Marsh, 48, who was serving as a Democratic Congressman from Virginia when...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: The White House Becomes a Wheel | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...they share his mistrust of the party system and hope to lure independent voters to their cause. Party or not, the organization will give the quixotic Mc Carthy a political platform-if it can raise enough money. So far the committee has a mere $30,000, half from Detroit Lions President (and 1968 McCarthy backer) William Clay Ford. If the committee nominates McCarthy, he will be a "deadly serious" candidate, he promised, though he has happily never been deadly serious in his discourse for more than a few sentences. Eugene J. promptly demonstrated that by comparing his role to that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Nation: St. Gene the Baptist | 9/9/1974 | See Source »

...mobiles with vacationing Yeshiva (religious school) students and young rabbis. Half a dozen vans are on the road each week in New York City and its suburbs and in the "Borscht Belt" Catskills resort area upstate. The sect also operates vans in other U.S. cities (among them: Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Detroit, Miami Beach and Los Angeles), and in Canada, Australia and Israel...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Religion: Are You a Jew? | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

Prechter nonetheless went methodically from one auto company to another, in stalling demonstration roofs free of charge. After several years his persistence paid off: Dodge and Ford finally decided to offer the slide-back roofs as an option in 1968. Today, almost all of Detroit's models offer sunroofs as an extra, costing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: EYECATCHERS: The Sunroof King | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

...indictment stunned the National Football League, which has successfully avoided any direct brush with gambling interests since Green Bay Packers Running Back Paul Hornung and Detroit Lions Tackle Alex Karras were suspended in 1963 for betting on games. The N.F.L. long ago adopted an injury-reporting procedure that was designed specifically to prevent what happened in the Pisani affair. Twice every week, each of the league's 26 teams must make public a list of injured players and their availability for the next game: "out, doubtful, questionable, possible or probable...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Bookmaker's Dream | 9/2/1974 | See Source »

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